← Andrew Gillanders

Creative work

Outside of Salesforce and revenue operations, I’m an experimental playwright focused on audience relationship with the text — work that’s often political and pushes at hegemonic understandings of culture and power structures.

Writing credits

Banshee’s Luck

Theatre · 2023 · Anywhere Festival

Immersive theatre that’s a third theatre, a third escape room, and a third DnD. Won the 2023 Anywhere Award for Best Immersive Performance. Read the review →

Parasocial Parallax

Theatre · 2022/2023 · Anywhere Festival / PIP Theatre

Interactive, cyclical sci-fi with six unique endings exploring the impact of family vlogging. Read the ScratchThat interview →

Singers of Pholick

Prose · 2024 · Tiny Owl Workshop

An ode to Ender’s Game, set in the rolling hills of rural Queensland.

Nexus Brew, Mental Bubbles & The Terror of Chance

Prose · 2021 · ScratchThat

Three short stories for ScratchThat: an interactive fantasy with ten endings, a sci-fi exploring an android’s bipolar disorder, and a JavaScript-driven interactive digital thriller with a cyclical narrative.

Co-Dependent, Patient Seventy-Seven & Judges, Jurors and Executioners

Theatre & radio play · 2019–2020

Earlier work: a drama about two friends gaming Centrelink’s rules to escape poverty (Work in Progress); a sci-fi radio play for Blatherskite Podcast about a prisoner’s two personalities vying for each other’s destruction; and a drama following the emotional fallout after friends kill one of their own (Vena Cava Fresh Blood Festival).

Editorial & production

Editor on ScratchThat’s Circa 2021, ScratchThat Magazine’s inaugural physical zine — formatting in InDesign, text selection, and creative direction. Producer on the Blatherskite Podcast, coordinating multiple writers, editing radio plays, and building the RSS infrastructure that got it out into the world.

That’s the creative side. For the day job: back to andrewgillanders.com →