
Play · Theatre Works · 2026
The Ballad of Dan O'Malley: A Football Tragedy
Paul's new play is a fictional piece that looks at the human cost of the 'tanking saga' that embroiled AFL club Melbourne from 2009.
Performance Writing
Check out some highlights below of Paul's more than 20 years of performance writing. And performing!

Play · Theatre Works · 2026
Paul's new play is a fictional piece that looks at the human cost of the 'tanking saga' that embroiled AFL club Melbourne from 2009.

Play · La Mama Theatre · 2024
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.'

Spoken word and music album · 2025
With Simon Mason, Paul wrote and recorded this album of spoken word and songs.

Dramatic monologue · La Mama Theatre · 2014
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.

Comedy show · Fringe Festival · 2013
Paul wrote and performed this show about a family of working-class poets.

Melbourne International Arts Festival · 2009
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.

Spoken word and music album · 2006
As Jumbuktu, Paul wrote and recorded this album of spoken word and music with Bill Buttler.