Paul Sugarman

Paul Sugarman is an actor, publisher, writer, and teacher of Shakespeare He is founder of the Instant Shakespeare Company, which presents annual readings of ALL of Shakespeare’s plays in New York City with over 500 Shakespeare readings performed. He has worked with the Actors Shakespeare Company at New Jersey City University both as a teacher and performer. On the performance side for ASC at NJCU he has been Verse Coach and Assistant Playmaster and has appeared in Henry V, The Three Musketeers, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, King John, and Hamlet in addition to Shakespeare compilations such as All the World’s a Stage. For ASC he has published annotated acting editions of Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice and The Three Musketeers. With the ATC Conservatory Players he has worked as Dramaturg and played Duncan/Macduff in The Tragedie of Macbeth, Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, and Theseus in A Midsommer Night’s Dreame.

Paul received a BFA from New York University and studied with Kristin Linklater and Tina Packer at Shakespeare & Company where he played as Costard in Loves Labour’s Lost. He worked with John Russell Brown on the publication of Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two and the Applause Shakespeare Library. He also worked with Neil Freeman to publish the Applause First Folio Editions and The Applause First Folio of Shakespeare in Modern Type. He has published pocket editions of all of Shakespeare’s plays using the original settings of the First Folio in modern type for his company Puck Press and is now working on the Quartos. Passport to Shakespeare is his first book and in 2015 he will publish Battle of the Bards, the Shakespeare Authorship Question.