PAUL LAZAR founded Big Dance Theater in 1991 with Annie-B Parson. His work with the company includes conceiving, directing and/or performing in such works as PLAN B, Mac Wellman’s Antigone, Another Telepathic Thing, Shunkin, , Mac Wellman’s Girl Gone, as well as dance/theater adaptations of Tristan Tzara’s The Gas Heart, Ödon von Horvath’s Don Juan Returns from the War, and Fassbinder’s Bremen Freedom. He received a BESSIE in 2002. Outside his work with Big Dance Theater, Mr. Lazar has been an Associate Member of The Wooster Group, acting in Brace Up!, Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape. Other acting credits include Marie Irene Fornes' Mudd, and Richard Maxwell's Cowboys and Indians. His film career includes roles in Silence of the Lambs, Beloved, Lorenzo's Oil, Philadelphia, and Henry Fool. He has been a guest teacher at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, The Bill Esper Studio, The Michael Howard Studio and Rutgers University. He co-directed Botho Strauss’ Big and Little with Annie-B Parson, and directed Len Jenkin’s Dark Ride for NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing. He directed Major Bang for the Foundry Theater in the spring of 2005.