Gwyn Gilliss

Gwyn studied theater and playwriting at Carnegie-Mellon University, and was an Emmy Award nominated Daytime TV actress with over a dozen contract and recurring roles- as well as appearing on Primetime TV series and a slew of pilots for new comedy series. Favorites starring roles include: All My Children, (ABC), Guiding Light (CBS), As The World Turns, One Life to Live, Another World (NBC) , The Lucy Arnaz Show (CBS), Wired City (HBO) and the Emmy Award winning, Woman of Valor (NBC).

Performing on and off Broadway, Gwyn also worked extensively in classical Repertory theater productions across the country-from Shakespeare, Moliere, Tennessee Williams to Noel Coward and Arthur Miller. On Broadway she was in Kaufman and Hart’s The Man Who Came to Dinner at the Circle in the Square and co-starred opposite Tammy Grimes and Ian Richardson in Joshua Logan’s (Mister Roberts, South Pacific) last play, Trick. She toured in the 1940’s American classic, Arsenic and Old Lace opposite Golden Age film stars John Carradine and Sylvia Sidney and played an ingénue in June Havoc’s (Actor’s Studio) Broadway tryout of the musical, Oh Glorious Tintinnabulation.

Gwyn was in demand as a corporate spokeswoman for dozens of network commercials and voice-overs from Mercedes, AT & T, Macy's to Brim Coffee and received a Cleo award as the voice of L’Oreal. She received a post graduate grant to study Economics at Harvard and attended a graduate program in Political Science at Oxford University (Jesus College). Requested by her former Dean from Carnegie, she was a guest professor in the MFA drama programs at Yale and University of CA, Irvine.

As a keynote speaker for the Actor's Expo, Gwyn has lectured to actors in London, New York, Paris and Los Angeles. Requested by the Performing Arts trade publication, Backstage, Gwyn writes a monthly column about marketing for a subscription of over 250,000 international actors, writers and directors.

Gwyn founded Laight Street Films in Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca (NYC) film community, creating Bloggers, a comedy pilot (HBO style). Her film, Fairytale which was recently shot in Paris and the south of France with an international cast was well received at the Festival of Cannes, selected by the Beverly Hills Film Festival, The International Faith and Family Film script competition and won First place in the Hanhai Film Studio’s International Script Competition receiving an offer of a production contract.

Running a successful marketing consultancy, GGC (Gwyn Gilliss Communications) for the last 3 decades, she has enjoyed mentoring clients on both coasts and internationally working in all medias. As the premier role model for those in the performing arts she willing shares her winning strategies and first-hand knowledge of the TV, Film and Theater Industries to help new actors succeed.