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PADDY GORMLEY

Writer/Teacher/Presenter

Photographs of Paddy Gormley

Paddy Gormley’s wide-ranging interests include writing, presenting, teaching, philosophising and facilitating by way of Socratic Dialogue.

His writing guide, Language with Altitude, was published in April 2023.

His long-standing interest in the metaphysics and evolution of ideas has led him to develop his own models for the creative process, which he applies in many aspects of his work.

Paddy’s technical skills include sound design and audio editing. He has created a sound booth that delivers studio quality audio using pro mics. Recent projects include a full digital audio recording of his verse play 2020 Visions, with a cast of five actors and music recorded specifically for the project.

Besides being a long standing member, Paddy was AWL Web Co-ordinator from 2001-2004, then became Chairman from 2004-2008. He continues to serve AWL as Web Developer (he created the database that powers this website), Rehearsal Photographer, Data Controller (ICO registered since 2007) and Correspondence Co-ordinator.

AWL Credits

Year
Director
Play
Type
2006
Reading
2005
Competition
2005
Kirsty Bennett
Reading
2003
Competition
2003
Kirsty Bennett
Reading
2002
Competition
2002
Reading
2002
Kirsty Bennett
Reading
2001
Brendan Gregory
Reading
2001
Competition
2001
Reading
2000
Competition
2000
Derek Bell
Reading
1999
Competition
Year
Writer(s)
Play
Role
Director
2004
Lin Sagovsky
Hercules Poirot
2003
Melissa Docker
Painter3

Non-AWL Credits

Production
Notes/Venue

2020 Visions

OSO Barnes February 2019, directed by Maurice Thorogood

Belinda / Natasha / Lucy: Olivia Busby

Alec 20, 40 & 60: James Price

Ros: Georgia Riley

Alec 80: Mansel David

The Social Climber

(adaptation of Le Bourgeois gentilhomme) Logos Theatre Company, Upstairs at the Gatehouse, directed by Kenneth Michaels (premiere production 2011)

Hamlet: Tragedy of a Fat Man

One-man show for Simon Fisher-Becker, directed by Kirsty Bennett, Etcetera Theatre 2002 and tour

Twenty-Twenty

Rehearsed reading at Bridewell Theatre 2002: Rosalind Adler, Peter Luke Kenny and Clive Ward, directed by Kirsty Bennett

Production
Notes/Venue

2020 Visions

Stage play adapted for radio: digital audio recording produced by Paddy Gormley and Maurice Thorogood for 2020 Productions

Ros: Georgia Riley

Lucy: Sarah Lawrie

Natasha: Sophie Morris-Sheppard

Belinda: Olivia Busby

Alec: Maurice Thorogood

The Wold Wide Web

A play for radio: studio recording 2010: Martin Cort, Clive Ward & Camilla Mathias, directed by Simone Vause with sound design by Milos Drndarevic

Meta Matters

16 talks for radio on the question of whether the material world actually exists

Write Minded

Six talks about the creative power of radio

Production
Notes/Venue

Bonny and Read

by Claire Novello, with music by Frederick Appleby: Novanda Productions, OSO & Brockley Jack, 2020

Revenge: The Horror Cabaret

by Rachael Bellis: Pleasance Islington, 2020

Life Changes

Plays by Carolyn Pertwee: Rare Fortune, OSO, 2020

Brief Encounters

Plays by David Hampshire, Tom Jensen, Carolyn Pertwee, Nicolas Ridley & Sally Sheringham: Rare Fortune, OSO, 2020

Round and Round The Garden

by Alan Ayckbourn: Rare Fortune, OSO, 2020

Murder On Cue

by Robin Miller: Rare Fortune, OSO, 2019

Boris Rex

by Charlie Dupré: OSO, 2019

2020 Visions

by Paddy Gormley: 2020 Productions, 2019

A Boy Called Porro

by Penny Culliford: Tricolore, Pleasance Islington, 2019

The Dedication

by Claire Novello: Chapel Playhouse, 2019

Disconnected

OSO, 2019

Stunning Meara

by Robin Marchal, Theatre503, 2018

Liberty Hall

by Robin Miller: Rare Fortune, OSO, 2018

Dear Chocolate Soldier

by Kate Glover: Historia, CAA, 2018

Plays by Nicolas Ridley

CAA, 2018

Drowning on Dry Land

by Alan Ayckbourn: Bournyack Productions, Wimbledon Studio, 2017

Society of Women Writers & Journalists

Short plays by SWWJ members, directed by Martin Cort, CAA, 2017

Saffron Hill

by Penny Culliford: Tricolore, Pleasance Islington, 2015

If As We Were Walking

by Nicolas Ridley: CAA, 2014

Dragon Island

by Robin Miller: CAA, 2013

Production
Role
Notes/Venue

Creative Thinking

Deviser / facilitator

Paddy Gormley’s weekly philosophy class for homeless people at Crisis UK (2005 - 2018)

Speak with My Voice

Workshop leader / teacher

An annual creative writing & music event at Deptford Reach by the Create UK charity

Art vs Rehab

Facilitator

Hannah Hull’s series of workshops (2012) in which artists and others working the field of mental health explore ways of achieving positive outcomes by encouraging and enabling artistice self expression

Activating Creativity

Workshop leader

A half day workshop for the 2010 national conference of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists

Exciting Writing

Deviser / teacher

Paddy Gormley conducted weekly evening classes in various aspects of creative writing at Blackheath Conservatoire of Music and the Arts (c. 1999 - 2004)

Production
Notes/Venue

Old Possum’s Book of Fat Cats

Paddy Gormley predicted the rise of cut-throat competition in the formerly cosy domain of professional partnerships, using light-hearted but extremely mordant recitations of his own comic verse. Venues included City of London Guildhall ( for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and countless Law Society dinners, conferences and partnership retreats

Contact

The personal contact facility has been suspended.
Please email paddygormley@gmail.com, who will forward.

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