Gretchen spent much of her career in New York and Los Angeles performing on and off Broadway, in films and in dozens of television shows. For a number of years in Los Angeles she served as the Resident Director for the ASK theatre, where she directed numerous staged readings and workshops of new work. Upon moving to Portland, she created and ran the Haven Project for ten years, a non-profit organization that paired underserved children with professional theatre artists to create original theatre.
Theatre (partial list)
Third Rail: The Gray Sisters, A Skull in Connemara, A Lesson From Aloes
Broadway: After the Rain, Forty Carats
Off Broadway: Arms and the Man, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Bench, The Justice Box, Henry VI - War of the Roses (NY Shakespeare), The Government Inspector, The Survival of Saint Joan
Long Wharf Theatre: Master Builder, Pasta Pageant
Mark Taper Forum: The Traveler, The End off Long Island, Woman in a Bathtub
Seattle Rep: Hunting Cockroaches, The Heidi Chronicles
Portland Center Stage: King Lear, Sylvia, Dancing at Lughnasa
Other theatres include: Eugene O'Neill Festival, Philadelphia Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Repertory Theatre New Orleans, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Back Alley Theatre. Los Angeles Actor's Theatre, Sojourn Theatre
Film
Out of It, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, The Other Side of the Mountain, King Cobra, Gathering Evidence
TV (partial list)
Series: Otherworld, The Rockford Files, Marcus Welby MD, Family
24 movies for TV, numerous episodes
Awards
Lead Actress:
The Fox (LA Dramalogue)
Voice of the Prairie (LA Critics)
Molly Sweeney (Drammy)
It Had to be You (Drammy)
Happy Days (Drammy)
A Lesson From Aloes (Drammy)
Direction: Ahnse and Buhle (Drammy)
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