Gemma is a UK-based director, actor and artist.

She was a founder and co-artistic director of the hugely influential Shunt collective (2000-14).

Her own productions have toured internationally, and been programmed by the RSC. She also works as a performer - recently with Complicité. She is currently working freelance and writing a book about her love of all forms of theatre, from Hamlet to the Paris Morgue.