Paule is a Royal Society Designer for Industry and has won a record six Olivier Awards, two Tony Awards and three Knight of Illuminations Awards.
She was awarded the Rayne award in 2018 for her contribution to the work of the National Theatre and in 2020 was given the special award by the London Critics Circle for her contribution to the UK Theatre Industry.
In 2025 Paule was awarded the Whats on Stage Services to UK Theatre Award and the Richard Pilbrow Lifetime Recognition Award.
Career Highlights
Previously for ENO: A Handmaid’s Tale, Satyagraha, Benvenuto Cellini, Medea, Idomeneo, Agrippina, Jephtha, Twilight of the Gods, La clemenza di Tito, Tosca, The Rake’s Progress, The Rape of Lucretia, Alcina, Manon, Life with an Idiot.
Notable opera engagements elsewhere: Norma, Roberto Devereux, Cav and Pig, The Merry Widow, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Anna Bolena (Met); Carmen, Figaro, Faust, Vixen, Die Zauberflöte, Rigoletto, Macbeth (ROH); Nothing, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, The Cunning Little Vixen, Figaro, Die Meistersinger, Billy Budd, Carmen, Rusalka, Giulio Cesare, Gianni Schicchi, The Miserly Knight, La bohème (Glyndebourne/BBCTV); also for Opera North, Scottish Opera and WNO; Poppea, Semele (Paris); Contes d’Hoffmann (Salzburg); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Agrippina (Brussels); Der Ring des Nibelungen (Strasbourg).
