About Nate
Nate Paul was born and raised in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. His voice has been described as “show-stopping and nothing less than thrilling” and as having “the presence of a stage-struck powerhouse.” (Broadway World: Nashville). He is a three-time national Orpheus Voice Competition semi-finalist, a Georgina Joshi Fellowship finalist, and a national semi-finalist in the NATS National Student Auditions. His most recent theatrical performances include Njegus in The Merry Widow, Prologue/Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, Adolfo Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, Lord Tolloler in Iolanthe, and Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance. He is a frequent concert soloist as well, having sung as the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, Telemann’s Die Donner-Ode, and Handel’s Messiah. Paul is also an award-winning music director and conductor, with past works including La Cage aux Folles, Les Misérables, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Wiz, Newsies, The Addams Family, Heathers, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. This upcoming spring he will be performing as Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd with Indiana University Opera Theatre. Nate earned his Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance at Middle Tennessee State University before completing a Master of Music degree as well as Vocology Certificate at The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music this past spring. He is currently a first-year doctoral student, attending on a full-tuition performance fellowship, in voice performance, with doctoral minors in music history and speech and hearing sciences. He is studying with and is the teaching assistant for renowned voice pedagogue, vocologist, and voice researcher, Dr. Brian Gill. He is also an assistant professor of voice and voice pedagogy at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.