Theater Ninjas was founded to create accessible and entertaining live performance while attracting new and young audiences to the theater.
We perform original works and interpretations that draw on elements of film, dance, improvisation, physical theater, graphic novels and music.
We offer a chance for up-and-coming Cleveland artists to develop their craft while providing affordable experiences that entertain, provoke and excite multiple generations of Clevelanders.
Jeremy Paul - Artistic Director
The Artistic Director and Founder of Theater Ninjas since 2006, Jeremy's recent directing credits include the critically-acclaimed Anna Bella Eema, A Proper Murder/Woyzeck, Heddatron, Crave, Mad World, Aphrodisiac, and This Is Our Youth.
Jeremy is the co-creator of the original works Peripheral Visions, The Beetlebug and the Bad Worm, Peep Show and Absent.
He has trained with the Pig Iron Theatre Company, New World Performance Lab and with Avner Eisenberg and Theodora Skiptares at the Celebration Barn International School of Performing Arts. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Ct and lives in Cleveland.
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Theater person of the year: Jeremy Paul...artistic director of the beyond-edgy Theatre Ninjas, is absolutely fearless. "
— Tony Brown, Cleveland Plain Dealer -
"Filled with poetry, song, intense physical theatrics and choreographed movement, [Anna Bella Eema] is a joy to watch."
— Fran Heller, Cleveland Jewish News -
"Mounting challenging plays with style and panache...it may be impossible for Paul to fashion an intellectually bland evening of theater."
— Christine Howey, Rave and Pan -
"'Crave' is an event, a happening, and must be experienced."
— Tony Brown, Cleveland Plain Dealer -
"Theater Ninjas deliver with telling skill and force."
— Christine Howey, Rave and Pan
