Paul Smethurst is a freelance Director, Choreographer, Movement Practitioner and Creative Engagement Consultant. He takes his diverse background in dance, theatre, arts education, producing and directing and centers it around creating work with and for marginalised communities.
Paul has a long history with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures; working for the company as a performer, character principle and rehearsal director before becoming their Resident Artist. Alongside this, Paul worked as a freelance practitioner in the fields of dance, musical theatre, acting and physical theatre with a career spanning Opera and West End productions.
He will be choreographing BYMT’s upcoming production of Worn Out at LOWRY this August.
