Gillian is a graduate of the two year acting program at The Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York City, and a recent grad of the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing department. She has moved to Toronto and is working on various writing projects, auditioning and is working towards becoming a story editor. She has taught the Meisner technique, and writes in multiple genres, with screenwriting as her main genre, having cut her teeth creating independent theatre.
National Screen Institute Short Drama Prize
(2011)
StudentWrites Playwrighting YPT - First Place
(2010)
Gordon Armstrong Playwright's Rent Award
(2009)
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater
(1997-1999)
UBC Creative Writing BFA
(1997-1999)