Paul Michael Ayre

Paul Michael Ayre is a writer and actor born in Maidstone, Kent and raised in Sydney Australia. Paul wrote the pilot for Channel 10's Drunk History which went on to series, as well as winning over $70,000 worth of writing prizes for his self-produced series The Justice Lease and an extra thousand for his writing on the award winning series The Pet Killer. His online sketches across different platforms and channels have amassed over 36 million views with many Australian collaborators (The Bondi Hipsters, SketchShe and Legally Brown). Paul did his technical training at The Howard Fine School for acting in Melbourne and has worked with Larry Moss, the late Elizabeth Kemp, Carol Rosenfeld and Jean-Louis Rodriguez. Paul has performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for 5 years, with several solo stand up shows ("The Unenduring Depths of Your Soul: To The Tune Of Michael Bolton" and "Dirty Dancing, My Medical Centre and Other S&*% That Nearly Killed Me"). He also won the NSW leg of Triple J's Raw Comedy Stand up Competition and competed alongside Hannah Gadsby and Celia Pacquola nationally. In theatre, Paul has toured extensively through Europe and Scandinavia (Slovenia, Austria, German, Sweden, Denmark, Holland and Germany) as part of The Umbilical Brothers show "The Rehearsal" which is available periodically on Netflix and Stan. Paul has also performed in productions of Closer, The Shape of Things, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. His recent credits in television, include most streamers like Netflix's Wellmania, ABC's Barons and Stan's Bali 2002 - the retelling of the 2002 Bali bombings opposite Claudia Jessie.