Praise for Paul’s first inner story, at 18

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Paul Meyer is the recipient of United Nations Women’s Gender Equality Award for the Chicago Memoir Theater he founded, and is a member of UN Women’s HeForShe Global Solidarity Movement.

The nonprofit Step Up for Mental Health has lauded his Withdrawal Play that he wrote and theatrically performed about his 18-year battle with misdiagnosed anti-psychotics.

Paul’s body of inner-story plays have been staged before sellout audiences, and seen by thousands throughout the U.S. and abroad through live stagings and YouTube.

His Ladies Man play (in development) is about the three women who raised him and the women who raised the bar for him.

His inner-story essays have been published in Medium Magazine, which draws 80 million readers worldwide; The Good Men Project, a magazine that’s hailed by Ms. Magazine as “what enlightened masculinity might look like in the 21st century;” and elsewhere.

Paul’s PBS primetime special Satellite on the Sea, delving into the inner stories of blue collar workers on an oil rig in the Atlantic Ocean, initiated his writing and producing biographical documentaries.

Which additionally included inner stories driving The life and Times of O. Henry; The Nolan Ryan Story; and four Building of a Nation films celebrating Singapore’s quarter century as a democracy, seen by 82% of the population.

Paul wrote his first inner story at 18 with his freshman English thesis, The Psychological Effects of the Beatles on the Adolescent Society, which captured the zeitgeist of 1969’s Beatlemania, and moved his professor to encourage him to become a writer.

Degrees in Journalism and Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas at Austin led him to create award-winning inner-story ads encouraging those suffering from psychiatric disorders or addictions to seek help from Paul’s hospital client.

Studying at The Second City, Chicago Dramatists, and iO Theater in 2015, Paul became a professional inner-story playwright/performer in 2016, and formed his theatre company in 2018.

An erstwhile board member of Theatre Under The Stars, the regional musical theater company that adapted Disney’s Beauty and the Beast film to the stage before it went to Broadway; and past board member of the Art Directors Club of Houston, he has lectured at Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin.

With his wife of 30-plus years, Paul lives in Chicago where he travels practically everywhere by foot while subscribing to Werner Herzog’s advice on examining the world:

I do not want to have a cellphone.I do not want to be available all of the time. I do not want to examine the world through applications on my cell phone. I’d rather go out and look around. I’d like to experience things I would do while traveling on foot. While I’m in conversation, I’d like to be with somebody like you face-to-face.