More on Producer Paula Randol-Smith
In the early 80's Paula headed her own company, Cibolo Productions, which produced industrial videos. Paula and friend Z. Clark Branson - non-offical partner - opened a small music and theatrical venue in a loft in The Brewery Arts Complex in 1984, which operated continuously until 1992. After that, she built and operated The New Venue- A Theatrical Space where, from 1992 to 1996, she also served as artistic director. All the while she continued to produce for Z. Clark Branson. In fact, Paula has been an ongoing producer for Z. Clark Branson Projects Inc. for eighteen creative years. Since 1998, she has produced Mountain Lion Folk Weekend, Z. Clark's festival of folk music and storytelling in the San Bernadino Mountains, which has featured such folk legends as: Mike Seeger and Ramblin Jack Elliot. Paula also works on many other productions, throughout the year, for Branson Projects.
Paula is vibrantly committed to creating and developing new projects theater socially and politically relevant. A native of San Antonio, Texas, she helped start the San Antonio Film Tape Industry Association and, in Los Angeles, was on the Board of Governors of Theater LA for three years. Recently, she and Emmy Award-winning director Wendy Robbins finished a documentary entitled Holes in Heaven? about the government's H.A.A.R.P. Project (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), an experiment being conducted by the Navy/Air Force on our Ionosphere. The documentary was narrated off camera by actor Martin Sheen and on camera by Dean Stockwell. She has spoken throughout the country about the video on live radio as well as before an organization at the United Nations in New York. Her production company, Green Wisdom, has also been funded, through a number of different sources, to produce and direct a video illustrating the natural medicine healing herbs of Northern New Mexico.
Currently Paula is planning a video production (possibly a series) with Green Wisdom, exploring the potential of renewable energy for both consumers and businesses.
In addition to her professional productions, Paula has also produced a son, Zachary Seth-Clarke Bartel, and a daughter, Clara Catlyn Wells Bartel.