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PAUL RICCIARDI is Professor of Theatre Arts within the Department of Communications and Performing Arts’ Theatre Arts Program and he serves as a Course Coordinator for College Now, a program where high school students in Brooklyn and Staten Island take college credit bearing courses through Kingsborough. Paul also regularly directs productions for Kingsborough’s Theatre Arts Program. Paul is Founding Co-Director of the Ancram Center for The Arts, an award-winning professional theater in the Hudson Valley of New York. Recent production credits at the Ancram Center include You Don’t Know The Lonely One with David Cale and Dael Orlandersmith, directed by Robert Falls and Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Invasion (Berkshire Critics Award for Best Ensemble). Paul is Creator and Director of Ancram Center’s Real People Real Stories, a program that utilizes a unique approach to support community members in sharing compelling, personal narratives, which is now being utilized by the Taconic Hills Central School District as part of the Elementary School writing curriculum. Paul is an accomplished Voice, Speech and Dialect Coach and is the Resident Vocal Coach at Ancram Center, and he has coached productions with local, regional and NYC theaters including WAM Theater, Stageworks, America-in-Play, Playhouse Creatures, and countless university theatre productions. He is a Designated Linklater Voice teacher and trained extensively with Kristin Linklater. Paul earned his MFA in Acting at the Trinity Repertory Company, in Providence, Rhode Island, where he appeared in the world premiere of Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home, as well as many other productions in Trinity’s actor training program. Paul has also performed with Provincetown Rep, Speakeasy Stage Company, Saratoga Shakespeare Company, Chester Theatre Company, Proctors Theatre, and Playhouse Creatures, to name a few. Paul is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Martha Boshen Porter Artist Grant, five Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Fund For Columbia County grants, two PSC-CUNY Research Grants, a Kingsborough Community College President’s Faculty Innovation Award, the Kennedy Center National Teaching Artist Award, and the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion. He is the former Co-Chair of Region 1 of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Paul recently co-created a Humanities OER entitled Modern Humanities and is the co-recipient of a 2023 Open Education Global Award for Open Remix/Reuse. Before coming to Kingsborough, Paul served on the theatre arts faculty at Siena College, University at Albany, Western Connecticut State University and Rhode Island College.