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Paul Mitchell

Performance Writing

Writing for stage and screen for twenty years.

Plays, monologues, spoken word albums, and comedy — selected highlights from Paul's performance work.

You're the Man

Play · La Mama Theatre · 2024

You're the Man

Stage Whispers magazine described You're the Man as a 'must-see' play and said 'Paul Mitchell has written a wonderful cataclysmic play that provides new and challenging insight on the foreboding theme of domestic violence.'

Sad Angel

Spoken word and music album · 2025

Sad Angel

With Simon Mason, Paul wrote and recorded this album of spoken word and songs.

Ragdoll

Dramatic monologue · La Mama Theatre · 2014

Ragdoll

Paul wrote a dramatic monologue about patricide that Silas Aiton performed as part of the Melbourne Writers' Theatre's 'Dark-Light' season of short plays.

Being a Wheel Family

Comedy show · Fringe Festival · 2013

Being a Wheel Family

Paul wrote and performed this show about a family of working-class poets.

Elemental

Melbourne International Arts Festival · 2009

Elemental

With poets alicia sometimes, Sean Whelan, and Emily Zoe Baker, Paul was part of this science-meets-poetry-and-music show at the Melbourne Planetarium.

As if Nothing is Happening. And it is.

Spoken word and music album · 2006

As if Nothing is Happening. And it is.

As Jumbuktu, Paul wrote and recorded this album of spoken word and music with Bill Buttler.