Paul Gilger

Who is Paul Gilger?

Paul Douglass Gilger is an American architect, set designer, and playwright.

Gilger conceived the 2003 off-Broadway Jerry Herman musical revue Showtune. In 1991, he designed the Industrial Light and Magic film studio building in San Rafael, California for filmmaker George Lucas and in 1989, he prepared conceptual designs for the Disney/MGM Film Studios in Tokyo, Japan. With Nomad Productions Scenic Studios in San Francisco, Gilger prepared concert touring sets for Madonna, Kenny Loggins, Crosby Stills & Nash, Carlos Santana, Alabama, Dio, and Petra, stage sets for Whoopi Goldberg and Anthony Newley, set pieces for the Super Bowl broadcast, and numerous sets for television.

Gilger's architectural work includes:

the landmark house "Edgewater" in Mill Valley in Marin County, California, built in 2003 by Lehman Brothers of New York

the conversion of the 1894 Del Monte Cannery Building in Santa Rosa, California into the 6th Street Playhouse in 2005

"Park Lane Village Square", a $100 million residential/commercial mixed-use project in Santa Rosa, completed in 2009

the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center for the city of Cloverdale, California in 2010