Paul Austin’s acting career began when was 17 at a community theatre fundraiser for the Mass General Hospital when he played the 50-year-old father to the ingenue lead in the musical, Finian’s Rainbow. Since then, he has acted On Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theatre, summer stock, Television and film. He has played roles as diverse as Tom in The Glass Menagerie, the Assassin in Shepard’s Back Bog, Beast Bait, Neils Bohr in Copenhagen, by Michael Frayn, and Krapp in Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. The dozens of roles he has played over the years, include Vivien, the title role in Percy Granger’s play, Harry Brock in Born Yesterday, Firs in Cherry Orchard, Tarleton in Misalliance, Mickey in Edward Allan Baker’s, Prairie Avenue, the Jester in de Ghelderode’s Escurial. His films include Sommersby, Tune in Tomorrow, and Trading Places.He has appeared in Television on Law and order, West Wing, Kate and Allie, among others. He is a proud member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA.

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Of Paul Austin’s performance in, The Deal by Matthew Witten, Mimi Torchin wrote in CUE magazine: “… one of the most finely etched performances you’re likely to see for many theatrical seasons to come. The details of characterization are impeccable and the honesty of the acting so complete that one soon loses sight of the actor pulling the strings. Actor and character are indivisible, the personality of one completely absorbed by the other.”

Marilyn Stasio of the NY Post wrote of his performance in Hit and Run by Joseph Hart:
“… an astonishingly fine reading… a rich and subtle performance, so good you want to throw your cap in the air.”

On Radio Long Island, Richard J. Scholem, called his performance in the title role of Percy Granger’s, Vivien: “… absolutely brilliant.”

Of his performance in Prairie Avenue, by Edward Allen Baker, Brendan Gill of the New Yorker
wrote that he was “… so frightening that if he had happened to cast a single glance in my direction I’d have been up and out of the theatre in five seconds flat.”