Gemma
Wilcox is a performer/director/playwright
from
London, UK, now based in Boulder, Colorado.
Gemma Wilcox trained at the University of Leeds, UK, specializing in multiple role-playing and physical theatre and was awarded a 1st class B.A. honors degree in Theatre Studies and English Literature in 2001.
In the UK her acting credits include: Sweetie Pie by Bolton Octagon Theatre (The Studio Theatre, London), Fear and Misery In the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht (The Studio Theatre, London), Lucy by Tiggy Allen (The Banham Theatre, Leeds). She directed Miss in Her Teens by David Garrick (Workshop Theatre, Leeds) and Blue by Emma Keele (Workshop Theatre, Leeds), and she devised, wrote, directed, and performed in The Sight of Your Face is a Blessing: A spontaneous performance (The Banham Theatre, Leeds).
Gemma spent two years in Austin, Texas and received two 'Best of the Fest' awards at the Austin Frontera Theatre Festival (2003/4) for her one woman shows Menage a Dix and The Honeymoon is Officially Over and a B. Iden Payne nomination for 'Most Outstanding Featured Actress in a Drama' for her performance in Iron Belly Muses' Curieosity. She was a proud member of the Austin Shakespeare Festival Company for 2 years, appearing in the Company's production of Twelfth Night, a staged reading of Cymbeline, and assistant directing and appearing in Will Power: The Course of Love.
Gemma received "Pick of the Fringe" at the Boulder International Fringe Festival 2005 for The Honeymoon Period is Officially Over and Leela's Wheel, and again in 2006 for Shadows in Bloom. Gemma co-directed A Bolder Caberet by the Society of Creative Aging with David Ortolano, and directed Sandy Hale in her one woman show A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Old Age which was also part of The Boulder International Fringe Festival 2006.
Gemma is very excited to be touring USA and Canada in 2007, and continues to develop her career in performing, directing, and playwrighting in Boulder, Colorado. She is constantly yearning to push and be pushed into new, inspiring, heart opening, and challenging realms of Theatre and Life.
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