Paul Snider is a Vancouver-based folk singer/song-writer/actor. Since graduating with a Joint Honours Music and Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, he has written and performed music for rock, pop, orchestra and film scores, musicals and radio jingles. His original music for the play The Boys Next Door received a Thea Award Nomination. He put his acting, composing and music disciplines together and wrote a sung-through musical called The Curtain of which he produced a full-cast CD. This is a love story between an East Berlin woman and an American man during the fall of the Berlin Wall.