In 1992 he set up his own Design and Advertising Agency so that he could pursue his acting career on the side and for twenty years he worked as an Equity card-carrying actor, voice over artist and presenter. His TV credits include: Doctor Who, Casualty, Judge John Deed, Upstairs Downstairs and numerous corporate videos and TV adverts. He also worked for a professional Murder Mystery Theatre Company for 8 years writing several of their pieces which were performed all over South Devon. He also started writing for Devon Life and from 1998 to 2006 he had his own Theatre column in Devon Life Magazine

In 2008 he made a conscious decision to move away from Graphic Design completely and began to concentrate on teaching, community drama and writing. He worked as a drama practitioner in both schools and in his local community and so Unleashed Theatre Company evolved from the Christian Community Theatre Company he had set up in 2000. During this period, he wrote and produced eight musical plays written specifically for children which were produced in primary schools in Torbay. These included ‘The Ugly Duckling’, ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘Frozen De-iced’, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. In 2012 he was commissioned to write an original children’s musical ‘Timothy’s Song’ for the Buckfast Abbey Storytelling Festival.

2009 Unleashed Theatre Company started what was to became a ten-year residency at Buckfast Abbey commissioned every summer to produce and direct a large-scale community production in the open air. Martin directed eight out of the ten productions including: ‘Godspell’, ‘Children of Eden’, ‘The Hiding Place’ and the specially commissioned play for Buckfast Abbey, ‘The Millennium Mysteries’.

In 2009 he had published his first book ‘The Official Guide to Agatha Christie in Devon’, which he wrote with the full backing of the Agatha Christie estate receiving access to the Christie archive and co-operation from Mathew Prichard, Agatha Christie’s grandson. He followed this up in 2011 by writing ‘The Official Guide to Daphne du Maurier in Cornwall’, again with the full backing and co-operation of Kits Browning, Daphne du Maurier’s son.

In 2014 following on from the unprecedented rise of homeless people living in Torquay he launched Unleashed Community Drama which started at the Leonard Stocks Homeless Hostel. On receipt of local funding the Drama Group was moved to Endeavour House, a community hub where more people in recovery could access it. In 2017 and 2018 Martin devised and produced two musical reviews, Under One Roof One and Under Roof Two, which put the spotlight on Homelessness in Torbay and the proceeds of which funded a Mental Health Worker at the homeless hostel.

In 2020 Martin wrote and directed the film ‘The Rich and The Pure’. The script was based on improvised workshops with folk from the ex-homeless and recovery community of Torbay. The film went on to be nominated for Best Short Film at the London Shorts Film, Festival and then went on to win The Best Original Screenplay at the Cannes Short Film Festival.

Martin is Artistic Director of Unleashed Theatre Company and alongside continues to be the Singing and Piano Teacher at The Torquay Boys Grammar and Spires Academy.

In 2009 Paul attended Plymouth University, receiving a 2:1 Honours Degree in History, before running a successful home based bookkeeping business whilst he raised his two children. In 2019, Paul returned to University and completed a Masters Degree in History.

Having been involved with Unleashed sporadically since its inception Paul applied to become the administration assistant in 2020. This role quickly developed and he has held the role Operations & Finance Manager since 2022.