【Date&Time】

Nov. 2, 2024 (Sat.) 2:00PM-4:00PM

【Venue】

Multifunction Room 106, Teaching Building

School of Music, CUHK-Shenzhen

501 Longfei Blvd, Longgang District, Shenzhen

Admission Free.

Visitors are requested to scan

the QR code for registration.

*Children under three years old are not admitted.

【Biography】

Paul J. Tines

Paul J. Tines – who earned degrees from Johns Hopkins University, M.A; Wesleyan University, Certificate of Advanced Studies; Pacific Western University, B.A; and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art – was Assistant Head of School for Advancement at The Marvel wood School from 2014 to 2019 and was the Dean of the Arts at the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans from 2008 to 2014. Before that, he served as the Executive Director of the Paul Mellon Arts Center and head of the Choate Rosemary Hall Arts Department. He previously served in the same capacities at the Ward Center for the Arts at the St. Paul’s Schools in Baltimore. In addition, Paul was the Executive Director of Broadway Asia Entertainment, establishing musical theater academies in China and South Korea. 

For over forty years, Paul has taught acting, dance, directing, playwriting, and theater history. He has directed and choreographed over 150 musicals and plays at the Paul Mellon Arts Center (Choate), Ward Center for the Arts (St. Paul’s Schools), Austin Arts Center (Trinity College), The Contemporary Arts Center and Newman Arts Center (NOLA), Newton Country Players and Lexington Players (Boston), and other regional theaters.

Paul’s students have appeared on Broadway in Rock of Ages, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Groundhog Day, Matilda, Finding Neverland, Gettin’ the Band Back Together, The Ritz, M. Butterfly, and Take Me Out, as well as appearing on Saturday Night Live. His students have gone on to direct on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in regional theaters.

Paul is the Founding Arts Director of the Education HUB in Guangzhou, affiliated with the CTF Education Group and BBSG.