Exit interview: Sue Giles, Artistic Director, Polyglot

After 22 years at Polyglot, Sue Giles AM moves on to focus on international advocacy for theatre for young audiences.

After 22 years as the Artistic Director of Melbourne’s Polyglot Theatre, Sue Giles AM is stepping down in order to focus on her work as President of ASSITEJ International (the international association of theatre for young audiences). 

Describing her international advocacy as ‘a really important part of what I’ve been doing for the last nine years,’ Giles explains that the end of 2022 seemed like the right time to walk away from the company she’s been so deeply involved with for so many years.  

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts