‘Gemma Brockis is startlingly talented — she has a bracing realness that is impossible to look away from. I can’t think of any role she wouldn’t make 100 times more interesting with her complexity and that incredible face.’
(Miranda July)
‘I would cast Gemma instantly in a wide range of modern and classical pieces. She is gold in an ensemble company and I certainly can’t wait to work with her again.’
(Kathryn Hunter)
She began her career as a founder of Shunt & created central roles for all (devised) shows, including those produced with the National Theatre. Her work as a performer/writer in a duo with Silvia Mercuriali has toured internationally.
Gemma has recently played Hedda Gabler for Deadweight. She performed with Complicité in their new show - Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead.
On screen, she starred in feature, No Light and No Land Anywhere, conceived with multi award-winning director Amber Sealey. She was in the original cast for Chris Thorpe’s There has Possibly been an Incident, nominated by Simon Stephens for the Berliner Festspiele. And she has appeared in many filmworks for Turner Prize winner, Tai Shani.