Gemma Creagh is a writer and filmmaker. In 2014 she graduated with a First from NUIG’s MA Writing programme. A fan of live performance, Gemma’s play Spoiling Sunset was staged in Galway as part of the Jerome Hynes One Act Play series in 2014. Gemma was one of eight playwrights selected for AboutFACE’s 2021 Transatlantic Tales and her commissioned piece In Loving Memory of Dan O’Reilly was played at the Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival in New York.

Gemma was the creator, writer and co-producer of the five-part comedy Rental Boys for RTÉ’s Storyland. As well as penning all five episodes, she was responsible for directing additional shorts and videos. Since then, she has gone on to write, direct and produce shorts and sketches which have screened at festivals around the world. In 2011 Gemma directed short comedy Tough Love which was screened at the Galway Film Fleadh, after which it was chosen by Screen Ireland to play at the International Film Festival Molodist in the Ukraine. She was commissioned to direct the microshort film, After You by Filmbase and Temple Bar Cultural Trust, as part of the Made in Temple Bar Festival.

On other projects, features, live events, advertisements, and TV Shows, Gemma has worked across a number of departments. She travelled the country as a production assistant on TG4 Documentary Scéal na Gaeilge, was a prop buyer on the Screen Ireland Short, Barry’s Bespoke Bakery and regularly shot and edited corporate videos for the countrywide Jobs Expos. Promoting diversity and gender parity are very important to her ethos, and she was the Project Manager for the Irish Chapter of Women in FIlm and TV, where she worked for almost six years. Gemma has penned articles for magazines, industry websites and national newspapers and is now the Associate Editor for Film Ireland Magazine. She’s also a regular contributor to RTÉ Radio One’s Arena.

She has recently completed co-writing a feature with writing partner Mo O’Connell, Fair Game was commissioned under Screen Ireland’s Spotlight Development Scheme. One of the chosen Axis Assemble artists in 2021, Gemma developed her first full length play – Old Town – with Axis Theatre Pop-lit department and the support of the Arts Council’s Agility Fund. Gemma’s play, The Last Trip to Tipp, was then commissioned by Barnstorm Theatre and performed at Kilkenny Arts Festival last August to a sell out audience.  She has just received an Arts Council Agility Award to develop her ADHD-centred play, Focus.

Gemma has just completed her first funded short as Writer/Director under the DLR First Frames funding scheme. Her comedy/horror short film Conveyance premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh this summer.