Gunduz Jem Kalic is a theatre director and acting coach interested in the re-making of theatre as a raucous and irreverent popular art - as a meeting place for "all the people", in playwright Arthur Miller’s words.  Towards this end, over the past two decades, in Australia, Canada, The Netherlands and the UK, Kalic has developed a practice of theatre centred upon the reinvigoration of the actor as "player".

Artistic Director of Taking Liberties Theatre Company and curmudgeonly writer of occasional newspaper columns, Kalic is also preoccupied with and concerned at the usage of theatre in commerce and politics, a phenomenon that became commonplace in the twentieth century. See also More on GJ Kalic and Patron Saints.