Paul Higgins appears regularly on screen and stage, as well as writing for the theatre.
Paul's screen work includes Slow Horses, The Ipcress File, Line of Duty, Apostle, Victoria and Abdul, The Thick of It, In the Loop, and Utopia. Recent stage work includes Local Hero, Memorial Device, The Meaning of Zong, The Doctor, and Aristocrats.
Curious Earthling is a story of growing up in a 'stable for labourers'; training to be a priest; taking the night bus to London; becoming an actor, a writer, a father, a fitness fanatic and an addict. It is a chronicle of early death, self-destruction, oblivion, freefalling and falling free. He's trying to be funny, too.
"Our children live in the most deprived ward in London and their parents cannot afford to pay for the classes and activities many more privileged children enjoy after school and at the weekends. A free-to-access youth group run by a local theatre in a professional setting is an incredible opportunity."
Local school teacher
