Gailee Walker Wells

Parents Weekend

Plays are available for view on the New Play Exchange.

A member of Playwrights Center, New Play Exchange, and the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative.

Received a James Irvine Individual Artist Grant

Created theatre companies in California with the vision of developing new works and new voices. However, after a few years witnessing the steady decline of language and imagination in American theatre and films, in 2020 she moved to Europe where imagination and innovation are vigorously flourishing, and, she hopes to create both a new theatre piece and a new film piece in castellano in 2025.

Sitting in a dark theatre and hearing an audience’s reactions to the language and story that comes from a place of mystery to the page inspires her to continue exploring and questioning humanity’s choices and actions.

“Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on stage.”Edward Albee

Art

The Fantasticks

Play Selection, Budgets, Casting, Set Design, Costume Design, Lighting, Sound, Props, Marketing, Press Releases, Programs, Graphics, Production of television, radio, and web commercials, Creating a unifying voice through all the elements of the play.

Because there are fewer and fewer opportunities for talented actors, playwrights, directors, choreographers, lighting designers, set designers, costume designers, etc., she created Theatre Arts West, which birthed The Southern California Playwrights Project to give playwrights whose work challenges the status quo, builds bridges across the chasms of racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance, and who are not afraid to ignore the constraining boundaries of American theatre which include: limited number of cast, limited number of locations on a set, having to be an “emerging” playwright, or have had to have studied with someone who has had a play produced and therefore deemed “legitimate.” All of which stunt the quality and potential of American theatre.

“Life is a Theatre Set in which there are but Few Practicable Entrances” Victor Hugo

Plays

Lend Me a Tenor

The Fantasticks

Lend Me a Tenor, The Fantasticks, Twelfth Night, Rabbit Hole, Third, Art, Sunset Limited, Project 36, Love Letters, Private Lives, A Walk in the Woods, Three Days of Rain, The God of Hell, Off Hollywood On Broadway (SD Fringe Festival), Hollywood Hills, Hamlet, Boxing Love with Shakespeare’s Women,…

“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.” Shannon L. Alder

From Getting to Know You

Kids Speak Out

Her screenplay, The Seed, is a love letter of hope and promise to the future of mankind, and will be finished in December of 2024.

While living in LA, Gailee penned the script for the film Moving Emily which premiered in the Hollywood Film Festival, starred Wendi Malick and Harry Groener, and resulted in her being asked to create a television series based upon one of the characters.

Her determination to create a space for actors, writers, and directors to hone their skills took all of her attention. She is now working on a new screenplay.

With her production company, 30 frames per second, inc. she created a children’s television series, Kids Speak Out whichwas produced on public television. Awards include: Second Place HAMP Screenplay Search, Chesterfield semifinalist, Cinesure Award, Winfemme Award. Equity, SAG, AFTRA acting and directing CVs are available upon request at gaileegailee@gmail.com

““There’s nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.” – Richard Attenborough

sample reel

Kids Speak Out: children’s program

Goodbye

Getting to Know You

“If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.” Woody Allen

Demo Reel

Goodbye

Kids Speak Out: Children’s Program

Getting to Know You

“Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.” James Cameron

Theatre

Private Lives

Dinner with Friends

Film

Last Night at the Alamo

Industrials:

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Lady Macbeth Macbeth Stages Repertory - Equity

Bobbie Carnal Knowledge Stages Repertory - Equity

Jo Bill World of Beauty Stages Repertory - Equity

Laura Fire Stages Repertory - Equity

Celia Copplestone The Cocktail Party Main Street

Ruth Stage Directions Main Street

Lulu Dutchman Equinox

Amanda Private Lives Country Playhouse

Miss Amelia Ballad of the Sad Cafe Country Playhouse

Billie Dawn Born Yesterday Pewter Plough

Chloe Lips Together Teeth Apart Pewter Plough

Karen Dinner with Friends Pewter Plough

Holly Anton in Show Business Brickyard Theatre

O’Keeffe Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’Keeffe Brickyard Theatre

Germaine Picasso at the Lapin Agile Brickyard Theatre

Martha The Unexpected Man Brickyard Theatre

Margie Walsh Good People San Luis Obispo Rep RT

Twig The Lightbulb La Jolla Theatre Ensemble

“For me, our job as artists is to serve the story, serve the director, and serve the fellow actors. And if you do that, by osmosis you’re serving yourself because you’ll get the best out of yourself.”

David Oyelowo

Playwrights & Artists II

Paint for Peace

Me Too Around the World

Art should flow effortlessly between all mediums. Music inspiring visual. Theatre inspiring music. Visual inspiring words, sounds, music.

Curator of Art Walks, Productions Inspired by Visual Art, Children’s Art Projects, City Arts Festivals

“Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.” Victor Pinchuk

Carnal Knowledge   Gailee Walker is a knockout as Bobbi, the lover who accepts abuse and clings to heartaches. Jole, Variety

Dutchman   Lulu, this play’s central character, is a white woman who rides the New York subways apparently non-stop, seducing and then murdering one young black man after another. Gailee Walker gives and awesomely “wired” performance as the mesmerizingly mercurial Lulu.  William Albright, Houston Post

 Macbeth   …Gailee Walker unravels in pathetic tangles of guilt and terror…..Walker is movingly broken an distraught in Lady M’s sleepwalking scene, the play’s most famous moment and deservedly so. It’s riveting. Everett Evans, The Houston Chronicle

 The Ballad of the Sad Café    Gailee Walker’s portrayal of Amelia Evans is on the money. She captures the course, hard quality of the woman and proves that she understands her character.  Taking Amelia from a tomboyish girl to a lonely woman, we see Walker grow with the part. She even manages to display a vulnerable side to Amelia, and quietly earns the audience’s pity. Bryan Munson, The Houston Post

 Bourgeois Gentleman   Hurry to Wortham Theater for the fastest, funniest Moliere you are likely to enjoy this season…Gailee Walker is grandly disapproving as the Lady Dorimene. Everett Evans, The Houston Chronicle

Last Night at the Alamo     “Last Night at the Alamo” is a small, unassuming all American classic that suddenly reminds us that,between New York and Hollywood, there’s a vast unruly, exuberant continent and filmmakers still capable of seeing and hearing what’s going on in it.” Vincent Canby, The New York Times

“Gailee’s gifts as actor, writer, and teacher have clearly given a depth to her directing skills. The Women’s Repertory Project received high critical acclaim.” 

          Emilie Kilgore – Founder of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

“There is a gift in this woman that should be celebrated”

Anet Carlin – Co-Founder of PCPA, The Great American Melodrama, and  Founder/Artistic Director of Brickyard Theatre      

gaileegailee@gmail.com