Authors

William Gaskill

William Gaskill (1930-2016) was a major theatre director who, in a wide-ranging freelance career, directed many productions of Brecht, Beckett and Shakespeare. He was closely associated with the Royal Court, where he directed Edward Bond's Saved. He co-founded Joint Stock Theatre in 1974 with Max Stafford-Clark, going on to stage some of the most significant work of the 70s and 80s.

Words Into Action

Mark Gatiss

Mark Gatiss is an actor, writer and producer. He first found success with The League of Gentlemen, with whom he won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1997, and went on to enjoy a radio series and three TV series on the BBC and big-screen outing in 2005. He has written nine episodes of Doctor Who since its return to television in 2005 and has appeared in the show twice. He is perhaps best known as the co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning global phenomenon Sherlock in which he also plays Mycroft Holmes. Other notable television credits include London Spy, Wolf Hall, Coalition, Mapp and Lucia, The Crimson Petal and the White, Nighty, Night, The Wind and the Willows and Sense and Sensibility. Film credits include The Knot, Denial, Absolutely Fabulous, Dad’s Army, Our Kind of Traitor, Bright Young Things and Starter for Ten. Theatre credits include Coriolanus, The Recruiting Officer, The Vote (Donmar Warehouse), All About My Mother (The Old Vic), Season’s Greetings (National Theatre), 55 Days (Hampstead), and Three Days in the Country (National Theatre), for which he won an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Queers: Eight Monologues
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A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story

Rebecca Gausnell

Rebecca Gausnell is a freelance voice and dialect coach. She born and raised in the United States and studied acting at Northwestern University in Chicago before completing her MFA in Voice Studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

As a voice and dialect coach, Rebecca has worked in theatre, film and television in the UK, USA and around the world, with actors including Richard Armitage, Zawe Ashton, Orlando Bloom, Jerome Flynn, Johnny Flynn, Caroline Goodall, Kit Harington, Rhys Ifans, Thomas Kretschmann, Jack McBrayer, Mikael Persbrandt, Noomi Rapace, Clive Rowe, Noah Schnapp, Ed Skrein and Lydia Wilson.

She has also worked with directors across all mediums including Gemma Bodinetz, Stephen Daldry, Matthew Dunster, Simon Evans, Yaël Farber, Neil Jordan, Diane Paulus, Lindsay Posner, Guy Ritchie, Michael Roskam, Melly Still and Mike Tweddle.

She is the author of Mastering an American Accent: The Compact Guide.

Rebecca Gausnell
Mastering an American Accent: The Compact Guide

Jamila Gavin

Jamila Gavin is a British writer born in Mussoorie, India. She is known primarily for her children's books, including Coram Boy, which won the 2000 Whitbread Prize for Children's Book of the Year.

Coram Boy

John Gay

John Gay (1685-1732) was a poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), his ballad-opera set in London's criminal underworld while satirising contemporary politics and politicians.

The Beggar's Opera

Virginia Gay

Virginia Gay is an Australian actress, writer, director, and Artistic Director of Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Her plays include Cyrano (Melbourne Theatre Company, 2022; Edinburgh Fringe and Park Theatre, London, 2024), a gender-flipped re-imagining of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac.

Virginia Gay
Cyrano

Pam Gems

Pam Gems (1925–2011) was an English playwright, the author of numerous original plays as well as of adaptations of works by major European playwrights of the past. She is perhaps best known for Stanley, about the painter Stanley Spencer, and her musical play Piaf, about the French singer Edith Piaf.

Pam Gems
Stanley

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), a Scottish writer, author of the trilogy of novels known as A Scots Quair, comprising Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934).

Sunset Song