Paul Seeger
Paul Seeger is an actor friend of
Lydia Grant’s who returns to New York City. His desire to do quality work has
him turning down a TV series because it’s too light weight, with too much emphasis
on the clothes rather than the character.
We first meet him in the episode “New
Faces”, where he’s working part time as a day player/extra on a movie and part
time as a cab driver.
Paul is a gifted acted but also
outspoken and can be brutally honest which means he often upsets people and
loses out of some acting parts.
Lydia believes that Paul is a born
teacher and organises for him to have an interview to be an artist in residence
at the school to teach acting. At first he’s reluctant and is pretty hard on
the kids which cause friction. Also at first he’s not that committed so when a
part comes up he quits the school.
However, he can’t help himself in saying what
he thinks of the script, which results in him not getting the part. When Lydia accuses
him of sabotaging his own career, he realises his mistake and returns to the
school.
Paul is a perfectionist and he’s most
demanding on himself. He doesn’t see the point in needless
procedures and rebels against all the forms that the board of education
requires and he hates handing out grades. More important to him is the respect of the
kids which he gains relatively quickly.
Paul is keen to shake things up at
the school and encourages the kids to rebel. Although he realises he’s gone too
far in “A Different Drummer” where Reggie Higgins gets suspended from school
and discovers that teaching is harder than he thought it would be.
In the Big Contract Dyrenforth
pressures Paul to take on some extracurricular activity and Paul ops to be the
faculty adviser for the School Newspaper, mistakenly thinking it’ll be an easy
ride.
Over time Paul becomes to love his job at the school.
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