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Gemma Bodinetz, former Artistic Director

Director Gemma Bodinetz. Paint Your Wagon in rehearsal. Photograph by Brian Roberts.
Director Gemma Bodinetz. Paint Your Wagon in rehearsal. Photograph by Brian Roberts.

Gemma Bodinetz was the theatres Artistic Director from 2003-2020. Her tenure encompassed artistic renaissance, extended reach into Merseyside’s communities, the nurturing and production of new work and building a powerful reputation for Liverpool’s theatre both nationally and internationally.

For Everyman & Playhouse:  Paint Your Wagon, Othello (Everyman Company 2018 season), Fiddler on the Roof and The Sum (Everyman Company 2017 season); The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary!, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, The Kindness of Strangers, The Mayor of Zalamea and Intemperance (Everyman); A Christmas Carol, Miracle on 34th Street, Educating Rita, Juno and The Paycock, The Misanthrope, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tartuffe, The Hypochondriac, No Wise Men, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Lady of Leisure and All My Sons (Playhouse) and Yellowman on tour.

Theatre credits include: Caravan and A Buyer’s Market (Bush Theatre); Yard Gal (Royal Court, London / MCC New York); Breath, Boom (Royal Court, London); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); Luminosity (Royal Shakespeare Company); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Four Nights in Knaresborough (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Paper Husband, Chimps, English Journeys, Snake and After the Gods (Hampstead Theatre); Shopping and Fucking (New York Theatre Workshop); Closer to Heaven (West End) and Guiding Star (Liverpool Everyman / National Theatre).

In 2014 Gemma was made an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University and is a companion of the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. She won Best Director at the UK Theatre Awards for artistic directorship of the Everyman Company 2017.

Gemma stepped down as Artistic Director in December 2020, you can read her full statement here.