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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.

Pam Gems
Born1 August 1925
Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Died13 May 2011(2011-05-13) (aged 85)
London, England, United Kingdom
OccupationPlaywright
LanguageEnglish
GenreTheatre
RelativesJonathan Gems (son)

Personal life


Iris Pamela Price was born in Bransgore, Hampshire, and had her first play – a tale of goblins and elves – staged when she was eight by her fellow pupils at primary school. She studied psychology at Manchester University from which she graduated in 1949.[3] She was in her forties when she started to write professionally. She is best known for her 1978 musical play Piaf about French singer Édith Piaf.[4]

She was nominated for two Tony Awards: for Stanley (Best Play) in 1997, and for Marlene (Best Book of a Musical), starring Siân Phillips as Marlene Dietrich, in 1999. Gems adapted works by dramatists ranging from Henrik Ibsen, Federico García Lorca and Anton Chekhov to Marguerite Duras. [citation needed]


Family


She married wax model manufacturer (the family firm, Gems Wax Models, established in 1885, has supplied models to Madame Tussauds) and former architect[5] Keith Gems; the couple had four children.[6]


Filmography


Year Title Role Notes
1984Nineteen Eighty-FourThe Washerwoman

List of works



Early plays (1972–1976)[7]


(work, year, place first produced)

Middle plays (1977–2000)



Late plays (2000–2009)



References


  1. Lyn Gardner Obituary: Pam Gems, The Guardian, 16 May 2011
  2. "Pam Gems profile at Film Reference.com". NetIndustries. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
  3. William Grimes (17 May 2011). "Pam Gems, British Playwright, Dies at 85". The New York Times.
  4. Lustig, Vera (8 June 1997). "How We Met: Pam Gems And Denise Black - Arts & Entertainment". The Independent. London: Independent Print. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
  5. Queer Mythologies: The Original Stageplays of Pam Gems, Dimple Godiwada, Intellect Books, 2006
  6. "Pam Gems obituary". 16 May 2011.
  7. "Pam Gems". United Agents. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
  8. "Winterlove By Pam Gems". The Drill Hall. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
  9. "Despatches By Pam Gems". The Drill Hall. Retrieved 11 July 2010.

Further reading







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