BIOGRAPHY
Paul Fox is an accomplished filmmaker with an impressive array of award-winning feature films, music videos, short films, and television productions to his credit. A graduate of New York’s School of Visual Arts, Paul’s thesis film, Last Round Up, won numerous awards and was invited to the Sundance Film Festival. Paul’s first feature, The Dark Hours (2005), is a taut psychological thriller that received much acclaim and numerous awards at festivals around the world. His second, Everything’s Gone Green, is a wry coming-of-age comedy written by acclaimed author Douglas Coupland (Generation X) and starring Paulo Costanzo (Royal Pains, The Night Of) which premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2007 to excellent reviews in Canada and the U.S.
Credits include 18 episodes of Schitt's Creek, the immensely popular CBC/POP/Netflix comedy starring Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara and Chris Elliott. Paul won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a Comedy Program for his Schitt’s episode, “The Cabin”, and received two more CSA nominations and two Director’s Guild of Canada nominations for his work on the show.
Paul directed the pilot and multiple episodes of Amazon Studios' The Lake, starring Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black), Julia Stiles (The Bourne Identity, Dexter, 10 Things I Hate About You) and Madison Shamoun (Black-ish), which premieres in July 2022. Paul was also an executive producer on the show. He also directed the pilots and multiple episodes of Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (Apple TV+, The Jim Henson Company), SurrealEstate (SyFy), and Western drama The Pinkertons, starring Angus Macfadyen (Braveheart, Turned).
Paul has directed numerous episodes of the acclaimed shows Anne with an E and Workin’ Moms for CBC/Netflix, and the puppet comedy The Barbarian and the Troll for Nickelodeon. Other television credits include the period action drama Frontier starring Jason Momoa for Netflix/Discovery, Rookie Blue for ABC/Global, Beauty and the Beast for The CW, Mary Kills People for Lifetime/Global, Being Erica, This Life, The Republic of Doyle and Coroner for the CBC, Bitten for SPACE/eOne, Lost Girl and Haven for SyFy/Showcase, Played and The Listener for CTV, Living In Your Car for HBO Canada, The Murdoch Mysteries for CityTV/Alibi(UK), and the MOWs Making Mister Right and Before You Say 'I Do' .
Paul is in development on several television and feature projects, including dark comedy The Great Perhaps, contemporary Western drama The Last Cowboy, and suspense/thriller The Mysteries of Ice Fishing.
Paul is also represented for commercial work by CoMPANY Films in Los Angeles.