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 an occasional contributor to RTÉ Radio One’s Arena.

Alongside writing partner and regular collaborator 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 in 2023 to a sell out audience.  She received an Arts Council Agility Award to develop her ADHD-centred play, Focus and was a participant on the last round of Words Across Europe.

In 2024, Gemma wrote and directed Conveyance, a 15 minute comedy-horror short film funded under the DLR First Frames scheme. The film premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh and had its international premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival under the FrightFest strand as one of only seven shorts at the BAFTA qualifying festival. Conveyance went on to win three awards, received four additional nominations, and screened at over 24 festivals worldwide.

Gemma is currently developing a number of long-form projects, including Heresy, a feminist psychological folk horror feature set in the 1870s about a pious young novice who goes undercover to expose an aristocrat accused of witchcraft; Fade Out, a comedy feature centred on the long-suffering partner of a rock legend; and Brogue, a comedy-drama series about a struggling American actor who reconnects with his estranged Irish family in an effort to perfect his accent.