Paul Schuyler is a prototypical film brat. That kid who grew up with a Super-8 camera in one hand, and a video camera in the other, turning living rooms into sound stages, back yards into back lots and friends and relatives into actors. He studied at The School of Visual Arts in NYC, where he took advantage of their hands-on approach to master every aspect of production. After graduating, he moved Los Angeles and cycled through a quick succession of production jobs before he raised the money to shoot his first feature-length film, WASTED, which saw a limited theatrical run in LA, but never found commercial distribution. Disappointed, but undeterred, he joined The Beverly Hills Playhouse as a director, where he was privileged to study with BHP founder, the late Milton Katselas. Determined to “crack the code” of acting from the inside out, Paul eventually succumbed to the acting bug himself.  A life changing event, followed quickly by second life changing event, when a fellow classmate asked him to help turn her story idea into a screenplay. That classmate was Jade, who would eventually become his wife, and creative partner—and the screenplay would eventually become The Tuna Goddess.

Outside of filmmaking Paul has been many things: a VP of marketing for a software startup. An accomplished musician.  A chef and restaurant owner.  A small business owner.  A dad.  A triathlete.  An actor. 

Film credits include: Rapid Fire, Wasted, BOMB, Runner and music videos for TwelveHourMary, Tori Amos and Pat Benatar.  As an actor he has appeared on stage in Lone Star, Driving Miss Daisy, 39 Steps, On Golden Pond, Boundless, Flowers in the Desert and the premiere of The Tuna Goddess.  Screen acting credits include They Are Mine, BOMB and the upcoming Give or Take. 

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PAUL schuyler

Graduate of SVA

Favorite film: Jaws 

A film pantomath

Can play Tom Sawyer on the drums

Studied at Beverly Hills Playhouse

writer/director/editor/producer/
cinematographer/composer/digital artist

Made movies, then made a family

owned a restaurant, became a chef

Wanted to write and direct again

Sold restaurant. Directed again

Film Composer

Ready for the next adventure…

JADE SCHUYLER

Australian American

Favorite film: The Mummy with Brendan Fraser
…and she doesn’t apologize for it 

Studied at Beverly Hills Playhouse

Actress/Writer/Producer

Made movies, then babies

Didn’t make movies, owned a restaurant

Wanted to write and act again

Sold restaurant. Acted again

Wrote a hit play

Ready for the next adventure…

JADE SCHUYLER

Jade Schuyler is a dual citizen of Australia and the US.  She graduated from Wheaton College with a Theater and Dramatic Literature degree. After graduating, she spent two seasons on a commercial tuna boat and fell in love with the sea.  Her passion for the creative arts brought her first to NYC and eventually to LA where she studied acting with Gary Imhoff and the late Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.  She joined SAG/AFTRA in 2001.  Looking to turn her story for The Tuna Goddess into a screenplay, she enlisted the help of Paul, a director at BHP who was also a seasoned screenwriter.  She was writing two love stories at once, the one on paper and the one in real life.  Eventually real life took precedence with the arrival of two sons, Quinn and Shaw.  Movie dreams set carefully on the back burner she returned home to Cape Cod with a her new family and opened The Box Office Cafe restaurant with Paul, which they owned and operated for 10 years. 
The couple stayed creative shooting short films when they could.  Her love of the stage and writing brought her back to the page to pen the plays, No Bull, Bananas, and the stage adaptation of The Tuna Goddess, which debuted in the summer of 2018 at Cape Rep Theater to a sold out run.  That cycle repeated in 2019 when the show was picked up by the Majestic Theater in Springfield MA.  She remains an avid performer, having appeared in films such as The Lightkeepers, Golden Boys, They Are Mine and Cowboy Drifter. She has well over twenty five onstage credits including Becca in Rabbit Hole, Captain Slank in Peter and the Starcatcher, Chelsea in On Golden Pond, the world premier of Wolf Hollow, and even played Alex in the premiere of The Tuna Goddess.