Paul Budraitis

Adjunct Instructor

Acting

pbudraitis@cornish.edu

Paul Budraitis is a director, actor, writer, and solo performer, as well as a teacher of acting and stage movement. In Seattle, he has worked with On the Boards, the Degenerate Art Ensemble, Annex Theatre, New City Theatre, and Cornish College of the Arts, among others. In 2001, Paul received a State Department Fulbright grant to pursue a masters degree in theatre directing from the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy (LMTA) in Vilnius, Lithuania. Paul has worked extensively in Lithuania, collaborating with the National Drama Theatre of Lithuania, the State Youth Theatre of Lithuania, the Kaunas State Drama Theatre, and Oskaras Korunovas/Vilnius City Theatre (OKT Paul has worked as a lecturer in the acting and directing faculty of the LMTA, and has taught the biomechanics technique of Russian theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold at the LMTA, at Cornish College of the Arts and at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavik, Iceland. He holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from the LMTA and a B.A. in Political Science from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.