ACTOR / VOICE ARTIST
SHOWREEL 4
SHOWREEL 4 - ACTOR / VOICE-ARTIST
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DPJ often appears as an actor and voice artist in the theatre productions he scores — particularly in his long-standing collaborations with the site-specific company Grid Iron.
Notable roles include The Lover and The Ghost in the multi-award-winning Those Eyes, That Mouth (2003); a playful parody of French singer Charles Trenet in The Devil’s Larder (2005/2015); and Silent Dave, the barman in Barflies(2009/2012), inspired by the writings of Charles Bukowski.
He gave a sell-out solo performance as Gilbert K Prendergast — an obsessive concert pianist and serial killer — in What Remains (2011) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Other appearances include Pip’s Butler in Dundee Rep’s adaptation of Great Expectations (2015) by Jo Clifford, and Deith, a prophetic “Soothsayer of Doom” and macabre 17th-century Plague Doctor in A Game of Death and Chance (2019).
In Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (2024), DPJ shared the stage with writer-director Ben Harrison, blending music and memoir in a poignant and often darkly funny reflection on their teenage years in the 1980s.
“his latest piece from Grid Iron goes eyeball to eyeball with the horror genre and is lush with music to murder by. David Paul Jones gives a convincingly wild-eyed performance as the mad Maestro who plays the piano with feelings he doesn't offer his victims”
THE GUARDIAN
What Remains @ Edinburgh Fringe (2011) - Grid Iron
“Jones is delightful as the show’s musical maestro, whether it’s intoning the titular song with sweetly doleful tones, or diving into a singular arrangement of Madonna’s ‘Like a Prayer’. Given centre stage for a minute or five, Jones tells his own story of growing up queer on Scotland’s West Coast. He proves an amiable, wry storyteller with a good sense of comic timing to boot.”
THE QUINNTESSENTIAL REVIEW
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (2024)
SELECTED THEATRE WORKS
productions which feature DPJ as actor or voice-over artist
CATALOGUE
SHOWREELS
“The award-winning composer and vocalist David Paul Jones is haunting as Deith, wandering eerily through the room in a long hooded cloak before performing an evocative song.”
THE SKINNY
A Game Of Death and Chance (2019)