Paul Calandrino is a Northwest playwright and actor who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and teaches playwriting at Oregon Contemporary Theatre. He is a founder and former executive producer of the NW Festival of Ten-Minute Plays. Writing almost exclusively for an audience of one, himself, he has not been widely produced, but his plays have been a local sensation in his current home of Eugene, Oregon. Calandrino claims that his work "interrogates the hilarious nonsense of human experience," and that writing is his way of "laughing out loud." Not that he doesn't take things like life, love, politics, family, illness, and mortality seriously. He does. He just writes about the lighter side of things, usually. His status in the world is greatly elevated by being the...
Paul Calandrino is a Northwest playwright and actor who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and teaches playwriting at Oregon Contemporary Theatre. He is a founder and former executive producer of the NW Festival of Ten-Minute Plays. Writing almost exclusively for an audience of one, himself, he has not been widely produced, but his plays have been a local sensation in his current home of Eugene, Oregon. Calandrino claims that his work "interrogates the hilarious nonsense of human experience," and that writing is his way of "laughing out loud." Not that he doesn't take things like life, love, politics, family, illness, and mortality seriously. He does. He just writes about the lighter side of things, usually. His status in the world is greatly elevated by being the partner of the amazing novelist Cai Emmons (Weather Woman).