Paul J Bakey is an American actor and singer born in Voorhees Township, New Jersey. He started to take a serious interest in theatre after playing the role of Riff in a high school production of West Side Story. He studied acting and musical theatre at Long Island University's Post Campus, training in many different methods including Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Meisner and the Suzuki Acting Method as taught by Maria Porter. He graduated with his BFA in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Musical Theatre in May of 2019.