Andrew Paulsen

Originally from Hurkett, Ontario, Andrew Paulsen is an internationally produced playwright who lives in Thunder Bay, working in film, TV, radio, and theatre, as a director, producer, writer, and actor. His short plays Cerebrospinalis, Falling Backwards, and A Man Dies By The Gun were produced by the 10×10 Play Festival, The Last House in the New Market National 10 Minute Play Festival, and Rōnin at the 3rd Annual Höyhentämö Short-n-Snappy Showcase in Helisinki. He was a member of the Inaugural Playwrights’ Unit at Magnus Theatre and the Inaugural Northern Creators Unit with Pat The Dog Theatre Creation.

His full-length plays are Cerebrospinalis, Come and Find Me, Moosefucker, Ontario, Dead Boy Party, Cosmonaut, You Paid For It; They’ll Pay For It, Heckler, Chain-Gang, and Ganaddakkon. He likes Canuxploitation and Hammer films, point-and-click adventure games, cigars, Ameritrash board games, cats, dogs, giraffes, wordless comics, betting on horses, and solving Rubix’s Cubes.