Gwendolyn Gunn is an actor, writer, producer, poet, videographer and founding member of Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective. After studying with Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof Studio, she acted at Trotwood Circle Theater in Ohio, and  in several Off-Bway shows, including THREEPENNY OPERA (1959) at the Theater de Lys, now known as the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Gunn’s work with the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective includes: ACROSS THE STREET from RAPE IN (1971), CONFESSIONS OF CLARA from the WESTBETH CABARET (1972),FLY ME [from WICKED WOMEN] (1973), MARGARET SANGER (1973), and AMONG THE RELICS from WE CAN FEED EVERYBODY HERE (1974). and TOGETHERNESS (1975) produced by the New York Theater Ensemble .

Gwendolyn Gunn was born in Dayton, Ohio. She participated in speech contests and school plays as a child. She studied psychology at Duke University, where she performed in Hoof ‘n’ Horn musicals, and at Antioch College, where she performed at the Antioch Area Theater and met her future husband, Moses Gunn. The couple moved to New York, and eventually into Westbeth Artists Housing. It was during this time that Gunn became part of the Collective as a playwright. The Gunns moved to Guilford, Connecticut, where she went back to school for Video Production. She started documenting assorted venues; not-for-profits, business meetings, promotional events, museums, to name a few. She co-owned the company VideoTakes with two other women until 2000.  During that time she was also studying poetry with Richard Raymond and performing in poetry readings in Connecticut and New York. Now a member of both the Guilford Poets Guild and the Connecticut River Poets, she has had her work published in national and international journals, and her latest book of poetry is called Tastes. She recently won two first prizes in the National Federation of State Poetry Society contests, one of them, The Circle Award, being national. In Guilford, following the death of her husband, she co-founded the Moses Gunn Play Company with Norman Thomas Marshall.  They performed together in Nicola Sheara’s company in Woodstock, New York, and are now producing and performing throughout Connecticut.