Paul Outlaw is a native of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He studied acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, after which he taught acting and performed in New York’s "Fringe" scene, including at La MaMa Etc. (as Monty in Goodbye Goodbye), the Newfoundland Theater (as the Emperor in The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria), the University of the Streets (in Anne Bogart’s The Ground Floor and Other Stories) and the Harold Clurman Theater (as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet).

He spent most of the 1980s in Germany, where he was active as a bilingual actor, director, coach, singer and composer, presenting work at venues including Theater am Turm in Frankfurt (as the Singer in Das Ende-Vom-Lied-Kabarett); Berlin’s Theater zum westlichen Stadthirschen (as Jesse Owens in Babel, a collaboration with Anne Bogart), Berlin’s Tanzfabrik (as the director of Good Girl); the Loft and Tacheles in Berlin (as lead singer of Die Haut and Snow Blind

Twilight Ferries); and at the British Council, Vondelpark Openluchttheater and the Melkweg in Amsterdam (as Vladimir in the Berlin Playactors’ acclaimed production of Waiting for Godot). He played the title role in Pepe Danquart’s Schwarzfahrer (Black Rider), winner of the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1994.

Paul Outlaw is the co-creator of Good Girl, a play for one actress about the life of Jean Seberg, and the creator/

performer of Here Be Dragons, an evening of not entirely autobiographical monologues for one actor.

Since his return to the States in 1993, he has performed in venues as geographically and culturally diverse as Sushi Performance & Visual Art in San Diego, CA, and the Olin Arts Center in Lewiston, ME. In Boston, he has worked with the Theater Offensive (Dirt); and in Los Angeles with Rosanna Gamson / World Wide (Rita Goes to Hell, Grand Hope Flower, Lovesickness, Again Not Again, Tov), the Fabulous Monsters (as the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts in Project Alice), Patrick Kennelly ([dub]zeck) and Michael Sakamoto (Vestiges of Creation, Spirit of the New World). He can be heard on the audio commentary of the DVD release of Roland Tec's feature film debut All the Rage, in which he co-stars. Tec's second feature, We Pedal Uphill: Stories from the States, also starring Paul Outlaw, was released in 2009.