Paul Lieber

Paul Lieber is an actor who won an L.A. Weekly award and five Dramalogue awards for his performances. His Los Angeles stage work included Abbie Hoffman in The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, an award-winning production, and Elia Kazan in Names, a role he repeated in New York. His other Los Angeles parts included Rabbi Hersh in The Quarrel and Father Grant in The Comfortable Truth. On Broadway he took the roles of Hitler and Moses in the celebrated Lenny, and in And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little his co-stars included Julie Harris, Estelle Parsons and Bill Macy. He played Danny in the west coast staging of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and was the first Treat in Orphans. He later published a poetry collection, Chemical Tendencies, with Tebot Bach Press, and created and hosted Why Poetry, a KPFK radio program that sought to explain poetry and then make it mysterious again.