About Us

As Poolyle Productions, Susan Poulin and Gordon Carlisle have collaborated on theatrical productions that have played in theaters and colleges alike, breaking box office records throughout the Northeast. Their plays have also been used as benefits and fundraisers for a wide variety of organizations.

Selected by Portland Magazine as one of the “Ten Most Intriguing People in Maine,” award winning writer and performer Susan Poulin is the author of eleven plays, six of which feature her alter ego, Ida LeClair, “the funniest woman in Maine.” She writes the popular Maine humor blog and podcast, Just Ask Ida, and is the author of Finding Your Inner Moose: Ida LeClair’s Guide to Living the Good Life and The Sweet Life: Ida LeClair’s Guide to Love and Marriage, both published by Islandport Press. As well as creating and touring her own work, Susan travels the country as an actor and facilitator for PowerPlay, a professional applied theatre company based at University of New Hampshire. In May of 2019, during a joint session of the Maine State Legislature, Susan was inducted into the Franco-American Hall of Fame in honor of her body of work and promotion of Franco-American cultural identity. She continues to be a leader in bringing a female voice to New England storytelling and humor, and sharing the healing power of laughter with audiences statewide and beyond.

The other half of Poolyle Productions, Gordon Carlisle, has been actively involved as a visual artist, songwriter and actor in the greater Portsmouth, NH area for over thirty years. A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Gordon primarily makes his living as a visual artist, creating both residential and public murals, theatrical set design, portraits, graphics and illustration. In 1999, Gordon was awarded a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for his achievement as a muralist. His most recent commissions include six, large Public Art landscape paintings for three different court houses in Maine and New Hampshire and illustrations for a children’s book, The Adventures of Bobby and Jimmy. Gordon’s studio artwork has been exhibited across the US.

For Gordon’s commercial artwork including murals, portraits, graphics and illustrations, please visit: www.gordoncarlisle.com
For fine art, visit: www.gcarlislefineart.com