PAULA HILTON - Founder, Director, Producer,
Writer, Actress & Stage Manager
Paula is the founder of Act4Mystery. After moving to NW Florida from California in 2002, she founded Act4Mystery with three plays she had already written and the dream to start her own performance troupe performing murder mysteries for dinner theater. Since then, she has written 35 more and is currently working on "Knock 'Em Off" her 39th murder mystery to date. And Act4Mystery has performed for thousands and thousands of guests all over the Emerald Coast. Paula directs and produces all plays, and acts in several of them. In her spare time (hahahahaha!!!!) she loves to bedazzle things, sing (and has been honored to sing the National Anthem for several retirement ceremonies), read and garden, and is a Do-It-Yourselfer with great intentions!
In her previous life in California, Paula performed as the featured vocalist in both a rhythm and blues band and Big Band Orchestra, co-authored a book ("When Romeo Wrote Juliette"), owned and produced artistic bird houses for her small business, It's Not A Pot, performed in roles ranging from the chorus line in A Chorus Line to Sandy in Grease and Trudy in Steel Magnolias, tap-danced competitively, and overall, kept pretty darned busy. No need for any of that now - Act4Mystery keeps her busier than ever before!