Biografia
Paul Michael Ayre, a writer and actor originally from Maidstone, Kent, was raised in Sydney, Australia. He wrote the pilot for Channel 10's Drunk History, which was later developed into a series. Paul has won over $70,000 in writing awards for his self-produced series The Justice Lease, and an additional $1,000 for his work on the award-winning series The Pet Killer. His online sketches, created in collaboration with various Australian artists such as The Bondi Hipsters, SketchShe, and Legally Brown, have garnered more than 36 million views across multiple platforms.
Paul received his technical acting training at The Howard Fine School in Melbourne and has studied with Larry Moss, the late Elizabeth Kemp, Carol Rosenfeld, and Jean-Louis Rodriguez. He has performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for five years, presenting several solo stand-up shows including "The Unenduring Depths of Your Soul: To The Tune Of Michael Bolton" and "Dirty Dancing, My Medical Centre and Other S&*% That Nearly Killed Me." He won the New South Wales leg of Triple J's Raw Comedy Stand-Up Competition and competed nationally alongside Hannah Gadsby and Celia Pacquola.
In theatre, Paul toured extensively across Europe and Scandinavia—including Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands—as part of The Umbilical Brothers' show "The Rehearsal," which is periodically available on Netflix and Stan. He has also performed in productions of Closer, The Shape of Things, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. His recent television credits include roles in Netflix's Wellmania, ABC's Barons, and Stan's Bali 2002, a retelling of the 2002 Bali bombings, where he starred opposite Claudia Jessie.
