Paula Bird
CONTACT : pgbird16@gmail.com
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I enjoy the variety of people and projects I am involved with as a scenic artist. Whether painting a barn, bathroom or bar, achieving the mood that the director or set designer envisions provides an opportunity to use my skills and the materials in an interesting way. When I am not scene painting, I work primarily in acrylic and found objects to recycle interesting bits I gather in my travels.
FILM AND TELEVISION SELECTED PROJECTS
American Hustle, 2013
The Equalizer, 2013
The Heat, 2012
Moonrise Kingdom, 2011
The Town, 2009
Gone Baby Gone, 2006
The Brotherhood, 2006-2008
SELECTED THEATRE AND EXHIBIT WORK
American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge ,MA
Double Edge Theatre, Ashfield, MA
Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, CT
Hartford Stage, Hartford, CT
Huntington Theatre Company, Boston, MA
Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT
Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC
Big Apple Circus
Boston Children’s and Science Museums, Boston, MA

Magic Matruska, acrylic

Double Edge Theatre, barn mural for “The Odyssey” - Circe’s scene

School Daze, acrylic, editorial illustration

Detail, Scenic Backdrop
“Plants & Animals”
American Repertory Theatre

Backdrop “Plants & Animals”
Designer - Michael Griggs
Charge Scenic - Jerry Vogt

Backdrop for “Shirley Valentine”
Stagewest Theatre
Designer-Keith Henery

Backdrop - copy of
James Montgomery Flagg Poster
Painted for Trinity College

“Princess & the Pea” acrylic

“Raising Cain”
Editorial illustration
Harvard Magazine


Rooftop Set “The Maiden Heist”
Designed by Chris Roope
Scenic Charge - Dan Courchaine