“… but it is Paul Featherstone as creepy, oleaginous Reverend Lupin with an eye for the ladies who is the comic star.” WESTERN DAILY PRESS (Sweeney Todd) (2024)

“Paul Featherstone literally steals the show as a Uriah Heep-like Reverend Lupin, the stalwart Colonel Jefferies and madhouse owner Jonas Fogg THE WILTSHIRE TIMES (Sweeney Todd ) (2024)

“The real stand-out performance of the evening came in the form of Paul Featherstone as Sir Joseph Porter KCB… with Featherstone’s performance demonstrating a perfect blend of physical comedy and theatrical finesse. His undeniable talent for comedy made for an unforgettable experience and he literally stole the show, with his charismatic and comedic portrayal adding a layer of brilliance to the production.” THE WILTSHIRE TIMES (HMS Pinafore) (2024)

“Stealing the show is another baddie, Paul Featherstone’s Reverend Lupin, who is truly revolting – making your skin crawl while getting a laugh makes for an exceptional performance.” ONCEAWEEKTHEATRE.COM (Sweeney Todd) (2023)

“The multi-parted cast create some gloriously grotesque characters, particularly … Paul Featherstone as a loathsome, lecherous preacher…” THE TIMES (Sweeney Todd) (2023)

“Malicorne is played with complete operetta expertise by Paul Featherstone who also provided a new book and lyrics which were very much in the spirit of the Offenbachian genre.” OPERA (Belle Lurette) (2022)

“Paul Featherstone’s Malicorne was the prime comic part, complete with a patter song about statistics! Featherstone was a complete exemplar, making the text really count and always musical.” PLANET HUGILL (Belle Lurette) (2022)

“All three of the cast, Tim Walton, Paul Featherstone and Carl Sanderson have strong singing voices and had no difficulty in coping with the ranges of the parts. They are also fine actors with good stage presence and comic timing. They extracted an unheard of number of laughs from the Cox and Box dialogue.” GILBERT & SULLIVAN NEWS (Cox & Box) (2021)

“Most successful at creating the necessary Offenbach style was Paul Featherstone as both an aged Mercury using a Zimmer Frame with great agility, and John Styx. He proved to be a genuine ‘singing actor’ lifting the production every time he appeared and giving it real energy and pace whenever he was on stage. His Act 3 song was an exemplar of good diction and singing ‘off the words’, as my teacher tried to drill into me!” OPERETTA-RESEARCH-CENTER.ORG (Orpheus In The Underworld) (2019)

“Of the cast, all were superb comic actors as well as singers… providing high comedy was Paul Featherstone as the continually cuckolded geriatric Menelaus, somehow able to produce successively deeper shades of enraged incredulity to the very end.” JACQUES OFFENBACH SOCIETY REVIEW (Belle Hélene) (2019)

Paul Featherstone is an experienced professional actor and operatic tenor. He studied Drama & Philosophy at the University of Glasgow where he was President of the Student Theatre Group. As an actor, he worked at the Glasgow Citizens, Edinburgh Royal Lyceum & Dundee Rep amongst others before studying singing with Peter Alexander Wilson while also teaching Drama to undergraduate singers at RSAMD in Glasgow.
At Scottish Opera, he worked as an extra chorister and performed in hundreds of school workshops and shows with their education team Scottish Opera For All. He embarked on a solo career, playing leading lyric roles as well as a wide range of character roles. He studied with David Pollard in London and performed in a series of masterclasses with José Cura.
In 2011, he did his first show with Mark Tinkler's English Pocket Opera Company, and over the next 10 years, went on to become an Associate Director of the company, introducing opera to thousands of school children all over England as well as on several visits to Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The company did workshops in schools which led to fun pocket versions of famous operas performed with school choirs and orchestras in large venues such as the Royal Albert Hall as well as an annual promenade production with student designers from Central St Martins. In addition to singing and leading workshops, Paul also directed some productions and wrote scripts for the shows "Opera Quest" and "The History of Western Classical Music Part One".
As a writer, Paul was commissioned by New Sussex Opera to provide translations of "Belle Lurette" by Offenbach in 2022 and "Le timbre d'argent" ("The Silver Bell") by Saint-Saens in 2025, both of which were performed to great acclaim.
In recent years, Paul has specialised in performing comic operettas, especially those of Offenbach and the patter roles of Gilbert & Sullivan.

Upcoming performances in 2026:
Jupiter in "Orpheus in the Underworld" for Kentish Opera, STAG Theatre, Sevenoaks April 23, 24, 25.
Colonel Petkoff in "The Chocolate Soldier" for Opera della luna, Wilton's Music Hall, London June 23 to 27 & IF Opera Festival, Bradford-on-Avon August 11, 13, 14.
Lillas Pastia in "Carmen" for Devon Opera, Northcott Theatre, Exeter July 24, 25.

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