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Paula Plum

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About

Paula Plum is a stage, TV, and film actress whose on-screen work includes "Next Stop Wonderland," "Mermaids," and "Irrational Man." This year, she appeared in Commonwealth Shakespeare’s "A Winter’s Tale" and in "Romeo and Juliet" with Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Her television credits include voicing characters on "Squigglevision" on ABC, "The Dick and Paula Celebrity Special" on FX, "Hey Money" on Oxygen, and "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist" on Comedy Central. Her original plays include "Memorial," "Wigged OUT!," and "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed." Her solo show "Plum Pudding" garnered her critical praise and the IRNE Award for Best Solo Performance.

Plum was honored by the Boston Theatre Critics Association with the Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, and Outstanding Actress for "Miss Witherspoon," "Lost in Yonkers," "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," and "The Children." She trained at the Ecole Phillipe Gaulier in Paris and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. She is a cum laude graduate of Boston University’s School for the Arts, where she was honored as a distinguished alumna in 2003. Plum is also an acting coach. She is married to actor Richard Snee.