Bio

Paul Clay is a an award winning multi media artist and designer who’s recent work includes set lighting and video design for the National Theatre Wales, Volcano Theatre, Welsh National Opera co production “Shelf Life”, Swansea, Wales; De Nederlandse Opera’s “Commedia”, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Triple Shadow’s “Breath on the Mirror” La MaMa ETC, New York. He has also done set, lighting, and video design with Mabou Mines, Susan Marshall, David Dorfman, NYTW, BAM, and many more in the New York theater and dance community.

He received the 2004 Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards Best Design, for “Perfect” at Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK. He designed the set for the Pulitzer prize-winning Broadway musical “Rent”, and received a 1997 Municipal Arts Society Times Square Spectacular Award from Tibor Kalman for his redesign of the marquee and exterior of the Nederlander Theater, as well as a 1997 Drama Desk award, for “Rent”, Los Angeles. Other awards include the National Endowment for the Arts/ TCG Fellowship, and the Bessie award.

He has done live visual media for events, including Wyclef Jean’s Carnival II Memoirs of an Immigrant Album Release party at New York’s Sounds of Brazil; the pre Obama Inauguration benefit for the not-for-profit Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, at Eyebar in, Washington DC, Bounce at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in NYC, and numerous other album and label launch parties, fashion events, and after parties.

He is also active in the New York night scene and has done visual projections for numerous club nights and party crews including DJ Rekha’s Basement Bhangra, Bollywood Disco, Lipstick Optional, Blackkat, Sholay, Vinylholic, Complacent/The Danger and many others.

As a video artist, he has shown internationally, been interviewed on local television in New York, and has been reviewed in such publications as ARTnews, The New York Times, The London Times, Time Out (New York and London), The Guardian of London, Tema Celeste, Print, Zingmagazine, and NY ARTS magazine.