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title: Paul Davis
date: 2025-03-26T07:37:00-05:00
author: Jennifer Vermeer
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#  Paul Davis

 

 

 

 ![]() Paul Davis played Captain von Trapp in the [Leavenworth Summer Theater](https://leavenworthsummertheater.org/)’s annual production of *The Sound of Music,[](https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2023/08/17/sound-of-music-leavenworth-washington-summer-theater/)*[featured in the Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2023/08/17/sound-of-music-leavenworth-washington-summer-theater/), in 2022, 2023, and is scheduled to do so again in 2025. By profession, he is a lawyer for the Department of Energy. Davis and his wife Tonya have four daughters. He also sings in the choir, leads congregational singing, and serves as an elder at Grace URC in Kennewick, WA, where he lives.

 

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## Articles by Paul Davis

  [     ![](https://d3evso2dxyohou.cloudfront.net/generalUploads/iatstagesofempathy.jpg?mode=crop&pos=center-center&w=56&h=33&f=webp&c=710041ba&v=e4b7070f7ee7f0082a1956e852a492fdec88c9bbe5ace0d1ddd2c73a0854ba49)   Interviews 

 May 13, 2025 

### The Stages of Empathy

 By Paul Davis

The beauty of live performance lies not just in the story told, but in the sense of community it creates—where truth and empathy intertwine.

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 ](https://www.dordt.edu/in-all-things/the-stages-of-empathy)