Born in Sydney, Australia, Paul Layton is an actor, writer, producer and director with a career spanning over 20 years. As an actor, Layton was selected to play the lead role in One Thumb Out, an Australian play that showed off Broadway. He has been broadcast live to over 500 million people across the world in his performance in the World Youth day Stations of the Cross, Sydney 2008. Layton was cast as the lead role in the Australian web series with the highest amount of global views The Horizon, that has accrued 144 million+ views on Youtube alone. As a writer, Layton was a published poet at the age of 16, and has since written dozens of short and feature films, TV shows, web series, plays, and anthologies. As a producer, Layton’s short film The Detectives of Noirtown has toured international film festivals, and has been added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.