paul hufker
theatre * fine art * tv
I strive to create theatre with ears. I like things wild, a little confusing. Would prefer audience is not as eager for dinner plans after seeing show; can't eat, must think. Also, (and this is important) use what I have been given to uplift those around me. Theatre's the thing.
Many plays about Missouri, New York City, and elsewhere. Full-length dramas, and tragicomedies. A few of the rest and the others.
i'm a playwright
Doomocracy, 2016
h e a d l i n e s
Mews: The Musical! workshops and performs at Sellwood Studios in Summit, NJ on 7/29 and 7/30.
THEE Meghan Finn directs rehearsal
Mews: The Musical! is workshopped and performed by the talented students at The Institute for American Musical Theatre, NYC. February 25'
Q. Smith and Lawrence Stallings sing All Blocked Up from Mews: The Musical!
Click the image, then click the Music icon in the lower right hand corner to watch the video
Huntsville set
Huntsville Poster
HUNTSVILLE was read at The Tank Theatre, NYC, Sept 25'
William Draper performs a monologue as "MAD" from Huntsville
StAnD uP is read and workshopped by Arc Stages, NY
StAnD uP is workshopped and directed by John Lampe at Villager's Theatre, NJ.
d i r e c t i n g
Paul directed a staged reading of The Best Most Super Fantastic Hiking Tour by Fay Corinotis on 5/21 at Villagers Theatre, NJ
Summer 25' -- Villagers Theatre, NJ :
Paul directs a staged reading of the
hilarious and terrifying Dinner with the Dictator
by playwright davidbdale
...going back a-ways...
Paul did an interview with playwright Sara Farrington for her play A Trojan Woman which is set to tour Europe.
Check out the article in Culturebot here:
A Trojan Woman at Luna Stage
2024:
Fragile Constitution and It's Fine to Hate Yourself were read at New Circle Theatre Company, NYC.
Fragile Constitution (A Time for Puke Woman) is performed at The Tank in NYC in February.
Fragile Constitution is available for purchase on Amazon: 2023:
Huntsville wins a summer residency at the Univ of Alabama
The Wet Woods is published by Next Stage Press.
The Horses in Central Park has been published by Masque and Spectacle magazine.
Birthday in the Bronx, 2020
Manufacturing Mischief performs at a sold-out show at The Tank, NYC
Manufacturing Mischief, 2017
Tiny Trump the puppet from Manufacturing Mischief, 2018
"Paul Hufker’s script, with contributions by Nato Thompson, Creative Time’s artistic director, sounded, on a one-time hearing, sharp, up-to-date and wide-ranging in its talking points" -- New York Times
"Mr. Chomsky may be the hero of the play, but it’s Karl Marx who bats intellectual cleanup, with a 21st-century rap update of “The Communist Manifesto” that somehow rhymes “Tannenbaum” with “Amazon.” -- New York Times
"The actors will have to repeat their parts, written by the playwright Paul Hufker — some of them highly emotional and physically demanding — 40 times over the course of a night...it might give an idea of the range of topical phantasmagoria to say that one room involves cheerleaders singing about abortion. Another features a kind of Tupperware party for handguns." -- New York Times
Paul directed a staged reading of The Best Most Super Fantastic Hiking Tour by Fay Corinotis on 5/21 at Villagers Theatre, NJ
