Paul-William Mawhinney is a creative professional with over 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry. Across that time, he has worked professionally as an actor, director, voiceover artist, performance coach, video game narrative designer and performance capture 1st assistant director.

A graduate of the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA, Sydney), he spent a lot of his early career focussing on acting for theatre. When he moved to London in 2015, he met John Dower and Oliver Hollis-Leick at the Mocap Vaults’ “Intro to Mocap.” Since beginning his training with The Mocap Vaults he has worked on more than 30 motion capture projects. His credits in the realm of Mocap and Pcap include work in films, animations, VR, e-learning and video games, ranging from smaller independent projects all the way through to many AAA titles. Still a passionate performer, nowadays his focus is more on performance direction. Some of his notable credits of late have been as the Performance Capture Director on Fallen Leaf Studio’s 2023 Sci-fi thriller game, Fort Solis, and between 2021 - 2024 he was working with Playground Games, on their new Fable game as their Associate Performance Director. However, at present, he is the Lead Performance Director for Larian Studios.

As a performance coach and tutor, he has taught at some of the world’s most prestigious drama training institutions, including: Germany’s Filmakademie, Drama Studio London, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art’s Open Program, The Sydney Theatre Company’s Education Department, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and was the founding head of the Acting for Digital Media MA/MFA course at East 15 Acting School. Paul was invited to begin teaching with the Mocap Vaults in 2019 and has loved every mocap minute of it since then!