About/Contact

Paul Gilchrist can be contacted on paultheatrered@gmail.com

Paul is a writer and director, and the artistic director of subtlenuance, a Sydney-based independent theatre company solely dedicated to original work.

Since its founding in 2008, subtlenuance has produced over 30 new Australian plays.

More info about subtlenuance can be found at www.subtlenuance.com

Paul is also one of the co-founders of the Silver Gull Play Award, now administered by New Theatre.

The plays Paul has written and directed include Softly, Surely (written with Daniela Giorgi, Flight Path Theatre, 2022); Live a Little (Kings Cross Theatre, 2021); Life is Impossible (Old 505, 2020, Newtown Theatre, 2010); Simple Souls (Fringe HQ, 2019): One Way Mirror (Blood Moon Theatre, 2018); Shut Up and Drive, or Sex, Liberty and the Automobile, (written with Daniela Giorgi, Kings Cross Theatre, 2016); All The Difference (Old 505 Theatre, 2015);  Joan Again (Old Fitzroy Theatre, 2014); Cristina in the Cupboard (Tap Gallery, 2013); Rocket Man (Tap Gallery, 2013); Blind Tasting (Ensemble Theatre, Canberra Street Theatre, Old 505 Theatre, Adelaide and Melbourne Fringes, CAP Theatre, Los Angeles, 2012/2013/2014); Lucy Black (Tap Gallery, 2012); Toy Box (Tap Gallery, 2011); A Thing of Beauty (Old Fitzroy Theatre, 2010); Catherine at Avignon, (Tap Gallery, 2009; Meraki Arts Bar, 2023); and Before the Embrace (Newtown Theatre, 2009).

A selection of Paul’s plays are available on Australian Plays Transform https://apt.org.au/author/?authorinfoid=1166

Paul has also directed Seed Bomb by Daniela Giorgi (Old 505 Theatre, 2019), TickTickBoom by Melissa Lee Speyer (Actors Pulse, 2018); Losing You (Twice) by Kate O’Keeffe (Newtown Theatre, 2017); The Poor Kitchen by Daniela Giorgi (Old 505 Theatre, 2016); A Quiet Night in Rangoon by Katie Pollock (New Theatre, 2011). He has been the director of several multi-playwright projects, including The Political Hearts of Children, 2013; High Windows Low Doorways, 2014; And Now To Bed, 2015; and Morning Star, 2021.

(Also included on this site is writing by Veronica Kaye. She is one of Paul’s dramatic creations, but her passion for theatre, and what it can achieve, is quite real. This About page has always acknowledged Veronica’s relationship to Paul.)