Paul Christman is the director/co-writer of Igor Lipinski’s Piano Illusions which played the 2024 and 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2021, he received the Irene and Julian J. Rothbaum Professor of Excellence in the Arts Award from the University of Oklahoma. He teaches annually for Høyskolen Kristiania (Oslo, Norway) with past residencies at Balletakademien (Göteborg, Sweden) the Danish Academy of Musical Theatre (Fredericia), the Joop van den Ende Academy (Hamburg), and the Stage School (Hamburg).
He has lectured at the Music in Gotham American Musical Theater Conference (NYC), Song, Stage and Screen Conferences (Winchester and London), Musical Theatre Educators Alliance Conferences (Orlando and NYC) and Putting It Together: Teaching Musical Theatre in U.K. Higher Education (Bath).
A graduate of Arizona State University (Tempe) and Wright State University (Dayton), he has also completed acting training with the Michael Chekhov Association.
His articles on composer Hugh Martin and the musical Pal Joey were published in the journal Studies in Musical Theatre. He is also co-editor of the songbook: The Songs of Hugh Martin: From Broadway to Hollywood and The West End (Hal Leonard). Paul has worked on musicals across the United States from California to Maine, toured in Germany with Hair, and music directed the Toronto premiere of A Class Act. From 1994-2004, he music directed 24 productions for Music Theatre of Wichita and has served on the OU faculty since 1999.
