Andrew Paulson

Andrew Paulson (born 1958) is an American entrepreneur living in London. He is a director of Varyag LLP and the Listen Media Company. Paulson is the son of noted American professor Ronald Paulson and is married to Loic Landry Tchouante Dombeu.

As a high school student he worked with oncology and neurophysiology researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Yale University and at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. While an undergraduate he ran the classical music program at WYBC, a commercial radio station in New Haven, CT, and founded The New Theater Company where he produced and directed numerous plays, notably Jodie Foster’s stage debut, Getting Out.

Paulson graduated with a BA in French Literature and Literary Criticism from Yale University in 1981, writing on Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett under the direction of Paul de Man, subsequently attending the Yale School of Drama. From 1982 to 1986 he lived in Berlin and Paris, where he wrote five novels. From 1987 to 93 he lived in Paris, London and Milan, shooting fashion and advertising photography. During this period he co-founded (with Gilles Dusein) the Paris conceptual photography gallery Urbi et Orbi, and co-founded (with Kurt Novack) a graphic design studio, Pourriture Noble.

In 1991, David Hirson’s celebrated play La Bête was premiered on Broadway and in London. Valère, the principal character, is said to be largely based on the young Paulson. The Molière-inspired comedy, written in rhyming iambic pentameter, is set in 17th-century France and Valère’s 30-minute manic monologue, a theatrical tour-de-force, has become a staple of the modern American repertory. The play was reprised in 2010 on Broadway and in the West End, with Mark Rylance as Valère. In October, 2013, another play -- Virtual, or the Life and Adventures of Andrew Paulson, Entrepreneur (Виртуал, или Жизнь и Приключения Эндрю Полсона, Предпринимателя) -- written by Julia Idlis, commissioned by Theatre Praktika (Moscow) premiered as part of its highly regarded series "Человек.doc".

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