Bentley, Paul

(Sheffield, England)

2024–25 Season: Librettist, Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale

Writing: Librettos for Poul Ruders’ operas The Handmaid’s Tale and Kafka’sTrial; A Handmaid’s Diary; The Man Who Came After Hyacinth Bobo, a Fourth Crusade novel; Inquisition, a play about the Jesuit scientist Teilhard de Chardin

Past Performances: Acting in London's West End includes Sondheim's Assassins, Company, Follies; Lloyd Webber’s Cats and Aspects of  Love; the Captain in HMS Pinafore; Dame Edna – the Spectacle. Television includes the High Septon in Game of Thrones