Michelle Pauls

Michelle Pauls is a writer and theatre artist. She created, wrote, directed and acted in the pandemic art mini-web series, SPEAKING OF FAMILY… which you can see on YouTube. Michelle can also be seen in the new HBO show, Mare of Easttown. For over 15 years she ran her own theatre company in Philadelphia (Walking Fish Theatre) where she produced mostly original work. She has worked as an actor mostly in the NY/PA region and won a Barrymore Award in 2010. She is on faculty at Penn State Abington where she teaches Intro to Theatre, Scene Study, Theatre, Gender & Race, & Devising a Performance. She is a trained facilitator in Theatre of the Oppressed, which she has used to examine race, racism, gender issues and more in her teaching and theatre work. Her grief work includes examining and writing about the loss of her marriage and her husband, as well as continuing work on the Passage Project–using theatre tools to help those on hospice and their families celebrate life and choose a death worth living for. You can see more about her here: www.michellepauls.com

Coping With Grief

Shorty

My dog Shorty is beautiful. Since my husband died, and Shorty came to live with me, our relationship has changed somehow. Profoundly. He was always

August 12, 2021