During the 1980s, Birchard worked as a DJ at
Radio Clyde, and pantomime. In 1986 he wrote and recorded the song "Diamonds Rap (We Are The Diamonds)", promoting the Glasgow Diamonds American football team. CBS Sports created a video package called the "CBS Video Bowl" for the half-time interval of their worldwide broadcast of the Super Bowl in January 1987, His career continued to encompass radio and stage roles, as well as appearances on television and in films. In 1991, he appeared at the
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London, in the premiere of
Frank Grimes' first performed play,
The Fishing Trip. Reviewers commented, "Paul Birchard's macho Vietnam vet Chuck is unexpectedly subtle"; In 1994, he adapted five of
F. Scott Fitzgerald's
Pat Hobby Stories into a one-man show at the Riverside Studios, London, in which he "used his broad acting talent to impersonate characters like the brash producer to the effeminate hairdresser ... The American actor's storytelling ability is so vivid that the very few props he uses - telephones, typewriters and
Time magazines - are hardly needed to boost the imagination." Two years later, he took the show to the Dublin Fringe Theatre Festival, and in 2019, performed it at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Some of his most notable roles have been at the
National Theatre. while
The Stage wrote "the four-strong cast put in near definitive performances ... Paul Birchard is lugubrious longest-serving friend, Ross ... Ross’s gleeful delight in the idea of an affair is a superbly-judged precursor to his horror at the enormity of the reality." and appeared in BBC Radio 4 plays and readings in the 1990s and 2000s. as well as the voice of one of the main characters in
Crysis 2 in 2011. On television, he appeared in a number of BBC 2 plays, including a drama about
Buddy Holly in 1989, and appeared in
Spooks as a rogue CIA operative. Birchard produced, directed and appeared in the feature-length documentary film
U & Me & Tennessee: An American Romance..., which deals with a romance by correspondence between playwright
Tennessee Williams and Konrad Hopkins. and at the Sydney
Mardi Gras Film Festival. ==Selected stage performances==