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Paul Moon Lands Roles on All My Children, Tainted Dreams

December 10, 2013

Paul Moon Lands Roles on All My Children, Tainted Dreams

Paul Moon, who graduated from Ohio State two years ago with a BA in theatre, made a splash last summer on the soap opera All My Children. Moon played a recurring character, a reporter, on the long-running soap, which was resurrected and aired twice a week, on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network and online.

Moon snagged the choice role because of his prowess as an actor on the Off-Broadway show My Big Gay Italian Wedding, which he landed after just two months in the Big Apple. His work as the swing, and later as the play’s antagonist, earned him his Actor’s Equity Card.

Working on All My Children was an eye-opener, Moon said. “The soap world is unreal. It’s the toughest form of acting I’ve ever seen,” he said. “Things move at lightening speed and you’re lucky if you even get two ‘takes’ at something.” Being in the show—which has been canceled again but may still be viewed on Hulu—means Moon is now identified as a professional film/TV actor.

Meanwhile, the Florida native, who graduated from Culver Military Academy before attending Ohio State, has been busy with two other soon-to-be airing TV shows,Tainted Dreams and CAWL to Arms.

Tainted Dreams is a show that looks behind the scenes on the set of a soap opera, at the drama happening behind the camera,” he said. The show, which also stars Dina Manzo (Real Housewives of New Jersey), Alicia Minshew, Michael Lowry and pro wrestler Jessie Godderz—is already been garnering attention in the soap opera world, and was recently featured in a half-page spread in Soap Opera Digest. December 13 marks the first viewing party for the pilot episode, and the program is expected to start airing in early 2014.

Moon also will play a commentator in a show, CAWL to Arms, set to air on ESPN next May about the Collegiate Arm Wrestling League.

If that’s not enough, Moon is turning his award-winning short film Through the Flowers into a feature film with the production company NYC Brand Productions. Through the Flowers won the Best Halloween Teaser award last year at the Lady Filmmaker’s Festival in Beverly Hills, California.

Moon plans to return to The Ohio State University this spring to speak with theatre students about working in the industry, and hopes to perform in another production with Short North Stage.