13 May 2011(2011-05-13) (aged 85) London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation
Playwright
Language
English
Genre
Theatre
Relatives
Jonathan Gems (son)
Pam Gems (1 August 1925 – 13 May 2011)[1] was an English playwright.[2] The author of numerous original plays, as well as of adaptations of works by European playwrights of the past, Gems is best known for the 1978 musical play Piaf.
^Lyn Gardner Obituary: Pam Gems, The Guardian, 16 May 2011
^"Pam Gems profile at Film Reference.com". NetIndustries. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
PamGems (1 August 1925 – 13 May 2011) was an English playwright. The author of numerous original plays, as well as of adaptations of works by European...
playwright PamGems, Gems wrote a number of plays for theatres on the London fringe before gradually turning to screenwriting. As well as Mars Attacks!, Gems did...
voiced the courtesan Camille for BBC Radio 3 in an audio adaptation of PamGems' stage play, Camille, based on the novel La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre...
on to direct theatrical plays both in London and on Broadway, including PamGems' adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya with McKellen and Antony Sher in 1992...
Stanley (2001 TV series), an American animated series Stanley (play), by PamGems, 1996 Stanley Award, an Australian Cartoonists' Association award Stanley:...
Hutchinson), The Desert Air (Nicholas Wright), Cain and Abel, The Danton Affair (PamGems), Women Beware Women (Thomas Middleton), Real Dreams (Trevor Griffiths)...
portrayed French chanteuse Edith Piaf in Stephen Barry's production of the PamGems play Piaf at the Perth Playhouse. She played both Cordelia and the Fool...
born in New Tredegar. Gerald Jones, MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney PamGems, notable playwright, lived in New Tredegar from 1984-1993 In the Caerphilly...
for her performance as Hilda, the wife of the painter Stanley Spencer in PamGems' play Stanley. In 2008 she starred in the US premiere of Vincent River...
Elton Kevin Elyot Tim Firth Michael Frayn Terence Frisby Christopher Fry PamGems Juliet Gilkes Romero John Godber Simon Gray Debbie tucker green Bonnie...
McDonagh Peter Morgan Two nominations David Edgar Michael Frayn Brian Friel PamGems Ronald Harwood Terry Johnson Julian Mitchell Frank McGuinness Simon Stephens...
Walter Bobbie and Dean Pitchford It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor and Dan Wheetman Marlene PamGems...
stage adaptation, written by PamGems and directed by Trevor Nunn, that toured the UK from 1991 to 1992. In 1998, the Gems adaptation was translated to...
Longaville John Barton 1978–1980 Piaf Man at rehearsal / Pierre Howard Davies PamGems The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle Warehouse...
singers Musée Édith Piaf, the Piaf museum Piaf (play), a 1980 play by PamGems Piaf (film), a 1974 musical biographical film Piaf (album), a 1994 album...
PIAF Yves Montand Directed by Jeremy Howe (York Theatre Royal); play by PamGems Privates on Parade Flight sergeant Kevin Cartwright Directed by Michael...
non-existence of indefinite or definite articles in the Russian language. PamGems 1991 Nick Hern Books David French 1992 Talonbooks Used in the 1992 Broadway...
in TheatreWorks' musical Beauty World and acted as singer Josephine in PamGems' Piaf. In the same year, she was Singapore's representative at the Pax...
actress (in 2001). Patrick French, author, biographer, academic in 2003. PamGems, dramatist/playwright.[when?] Paul Ginsborg, historian Henry Green, (1960)...
she appeared in productions of Victoria Benedictsson's The Enchantment, PamGems' Stanley, and Julian Mitchell's Half Life. She appeared in drama and comedy...
Mary Barnes (Royal Court), Guinevere in Guinevere (written for her by PamGems, Soho Poly), Mrs Prentice in What the Butler Saw (the Crucible Theatre...
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