Sue Giles

Since Sue Giles was appointed Artistic Director of Polyglot in 2000, she has directed, written or devised fourteen works which have toured nationally and internationally, including The Big Game (Melbourne International Arts Festival, Singapore Arts Festival), Check Out! (Melbourne International Comedy Festival, National Theatre of Korea, Hong Kong International Arts Carnival, winner Excellent Production Award at Shanghai International Children's Theatre Festival) Headhunter (UNIMA international puppetry festival, ASSITEJ international festival for young people, Drama Victoria Award winner), Muckheap (Esplanade Theatres Singapore, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, USA and translated into Mandarin-Chinese as La Ji Da Bian Shen and playing at the National Center for the Performing Arts, China) Baggy Pants, Tangle, City of Riddles, Sticky Maze, Paper Planet and the community spectacular High Rise.  Her conceptual work We Built This City has toured continually for ten years including to the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Kennedy Center Washington, Act3 Festival Singapore and through Taiwan, Japan, Korea, England, Ireland and Scotland.

Prior to working at Polyglot, Sue was a freelance director, writer and performer, working with her own company Shaken and Suspicious and other companies including Black Hole, Back To Back Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Arena Theatre Company and Terrapin Puppet Theatre.  She has written for ABC radio and episodes of Lift Off for the Children’s Television Foundation. Sue has directed over 30 productions and written 21 produced plays.

In 2003, she was the Australian representative at the International Director’s Forum hosted by ASSITEJ Germany.  In 2004 she was the Victorian Representative on the National Board of YPAA (Young People and the Arts, Australia) and from 2008-9 she was on the steering committee of the national puppetry organisation UNIMA.  In 2009, Sue was the Puppetry Director of the Australian production of the Broadway musical, Avenue Q.