Gwendolyn Phair

I’m a NYC based actor, writer, singer, director and dancer. I have a great infatuation with the exploration of the human experience and this defines all my artistry. I grew up in a house of stories, every night my father would continue one of the many evolving epics he created before I went to bed. Some days we were cats, some we were dragons, but all were magnificent and stoked the already hot embers of my imagination. This was the portal to my varied means of creative expression.

I started singing and dancing lessons when I was five and they continue on. The stories and characters that lived in my imagination poured into the page. Then acting; proudly proclaiming my first lines in a summer camp production of SchoolHouse Rock. I knew that I loved the smell of the theater (a story my mother loves to tell) and on the stage, I was home. I’m intrigued by all facets of acting. It is the exquisite brush in which to paint the varied, complicated and contradictory portraits of humanity which I hold so dear.

My inaugural entrance to theater here in NYC, the performance of my play 16000 PSI, was a memory I will not soon forget.