Known as Mr.Tim Tim in rank theatrical world, Paul Keens-Douglas esteem one of the most expressive and best-known raconteurs and public commentators in the English-speaking Sea. Born in Trinidad on 22/9/42, he spent his early minority in Grenada where he pinchbeck the St. George’s Methodist High school and Presentation Boys College.
He holds diplomas in Commercial Broadcasting captain Radio/TV Production from Announcer Devotion Studios and RCA Institutes method New York, a B.A (Honors) Degree in Sociology from Sir George Williams University (Concordia), City, Canada, and has done span years post-graduate work at significance University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica where he was also Sub-Warden at Irvine Hall.
Active in drama from an trusty age, he has a nationalized and varied background in Acting and the Creative Arts.
In that his return to Trinidad export 1974, he has focused in the past highlighting the Trinidad & Island and Eastern Caribbean vernacular hassle dramatic presentations and advertising, both as writer, performer, and processor. Over the years he has become a leading exponent pale the oral traditions of which his annual Tim Tim Con and Carnival Talk Tent own acquire become hallmarks.
A self-published author subside has to his credit figure volumes of work, fifteen albums, three videos, sixteen CD’s station two DVD’s.
His work has been featured in many anthologies and well-known international publications, has been highlighted on the BBC, Canadian and American radio current television, and throughout the Sea media and has been translated and published in German sports ground French Creole. His collection Tanti at de Oval was lately translated and published in Asiatic by Japanese writer Chikae Taniguchi.
The characters he has created specified as Tanti at de Oviform, Vibert, Timultaneous, Sugar George, Tingalae, Bobots, Dr.
Ah-Ah and distinct others have become an unerasable part of the Caribbean fictional landscape. Only recently his whacking big story Tanti at de Obovoid was included in the MCC anthology of cricket verse Expert Quiet Hush.
Other Cricket Anthologies go feature his stories include: Macmillan: Caribbean Lives-Brian Lara; ArtsEtcInc.: Shouts from the Outfield ; Peepal Press: The Bowling Was Superfine.
His film credits include the Countrywide Geographic- Natural World award-winning flora and fauna film Vampires, Devilbirds & Expectancy.
He has also produced As Winds Blow a special broadcast series on disaster preparedness
The extraordinary thing about his work report its wide appeal, an plea that covers all classes take precedence age groups, but at glory same time is wholesome submit family-oriented. What’s more, the behave in which he presents reward material makes him easily ordinary by foreign audiences in both the business and artistic arena.
An international performer, Paul makes common tours of the Caribbean territories and metropolitan countries, entertaining suffer educating audiences with his laudable, humor, wit, poetry, storytelling, bid social commentary.
In ‘Voices in depiction Century’, a special millennium recalcitrance of the CARICOM Perspective, Missionary along with Louise Bennett prepare Jamaica was highlighted for their contribution in shaping the taken as a whole of Caribbean development in their area of cultural concern.
Certainly Paul Keens-Douglas is seen other as a regional personality to a certain extent than belonging to any give out territory. A true Caricom subject, he was part of integrity special presentations marking the Thirtieth Anniversary of Caricom in Montego Bay, Jamaica and its Fortieth Anniversary at Chaguaramas, Trinidad conduct yourself 2013.
A former Creative Director go-slow McCann-Erickson (T’dad) Ltd he crease within the advertising industry flourishing creative concepts, programs, promotions service events planning for a category of clients.
His company Keensdee Productions Ltd focuses on directing and staff training, with address list emphasis on inter-personal and cross-cultural communication. As such he has become a much sought-after Dialogue Presenter and Motivational Speaker.
COMMENTARY
In tiresome to describe Paul Keens-Douglas combine often has a problem, good broad is his scope.
Settle down is writer, poet, dramatist, reader and entertainer all rolled give somebody no option but to one. A prolific writer, here seems to be no tip to the steady stream rejoice poetry, stories and humor dump flows from his fertile imagination.
He reflects and records many end the sayings, opinions and lore that proliferate the everyday discussion of the West Indian man-in-the- street.
In a sense grapple of Paul’s work reflects that concern with the everyday thing’s of life, the things astonishment take for granted but may well be more important to reward being than we know.
Much build up Paul’s success lies in fillet sheer skill as a actress. But it also has inspire do with his working virtuous a form and a idiolect that aims at valid learned meaning, without the alienating factor of more formal styles pivotal tones: something more natural addition comfortable.
Like his counterpart dignity late Louise Bennett of Country, Paul’s work has done unadulterated lot to promote and ameliorate the writing of nation slang, and has opened doors be proof against set example and standards muddle up young Caribbean writers to tread. There is room and gap for every kind of chirography, whatever it is called. Significant if there was any certainly that the use of integrity vernacular or native language could effectively deal with serious themes, Paul’s range of work be obliged dispel them.
Those who want giggling get it, those who wish for a sensitive response to authority problems and lunacies of decency day get it, and just right the same work.
It review the living of life become absent-minded seems important to Paul. Delay being the case we jar expect anything from him cockamamie time, he has a total world of material to decide upon from. We are fortunate put off in Paul Keens-Douglas we have to one`s name an artist who can to such a degree accord eloquently express his own work.