Gemma is a storyteller at heart. You can find her performing all over the Bay Area doing solo performances, storytelling events and improvised musicals.

STORYTELLING - As a storyteller, Gemma is the resident performer at “The Shout”, an Oakland storytelling series featuring “life’s true stories told onstage without notes or scripts”. Inspired by “The Moth”, it does for storytelling what Poetry slamming did for poetry.

Gemma tells her ongoing saga of how a muu-muu wearing “chunky little dazzler” (Dramalogue, 2009) transforms into an award-winning humanitarian and singer. Gemma looks back at her adventures and reflects on how going on a national game show, running a stripping telegram agency, stalking John Cusak and working as a rollerskating waitress led her to build an unprecedented Million Voice Choir and become a internationally recognized social entrepreneur introducing community innovations for the provision of clean water and sanitation in Asia and Africa.

Follow her adventures at Theshoutstorytelling.com.

SOLO PERFORMANCE – Gemma has also performed at the Monday Night Marsh Solo performance series at the Marsh Theatre, a breeding ground for new performance. Gemma takes her stories and brings them alive on turning into a performance piece to eventually become a a full One Woman Show in 2013.

IMPROVISOR – Gemma is a student performer at the BATS Theatre in San Francisco, voted the Best of the Bay Best Theater 16 years running. Gemma has performed various genres of improvisational storytelling such as Murder Mystery, Spontaneous Broadway, the Harold, Theatersports. She is the Captain of  ”The Lombard Street Experiment”, an improv troupe that specializes in fully improvised musicals. The Lombard Street Experiment is a 6 time winner of the BATS Cave Match Competition in the Fall of 2012.