Gwendolyn Kelso

Adjunct Faculty, Acting for Non-Majors

Gwendolyn Kelso (MFA) is a professional actor (Austin Shakespeare, Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, Saint Louis Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Saint Louis Shakespeare Company, Gamut Classic Theatre, and Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre, New York), director (Austin Shakespeare, Hedgepig, Imagination Stage) and educator (American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Fort Lewis College, UT Austin, Adelphi University).

Gwen is a founding member of Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre, a New York-based company that has been featured in The New York Times, Playbill and American Theatre Magazine for their work on Expand the Cannon. 

Expand the Canon is a call to action for theatres to embrace and produce plays by women and non-binary writers as classics. We believe gender equity must be threaded throughout our work – on stage, back stage, and, of course, in whose stories we tell. You can hear more about the origin of the project and its aims in our podcast.