Gregory Gesch
Gregory Gesch
Role - Actor, Director, Playwright & Designer
Short Bio
Gregory is a theatrical polymath having been actor, director, designer, and playwright for over 50 years. He began acting with the Queensland Theatre Company, aged eighteen, and performed with it and Brisbane’s other professional companies over the years until becoming Resident Director of the QTC for the decade of the eighties. He moved on to become Artistic Director of the New England Theatre Company in NSW.
Biography
As an actor Gregory has appeared with Queensland Theatre (Company) in productions throughout the 70’s including ‘Pygmalion’, ‘Streetcar Named Desire’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Equus’, ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, ‘Taming of the Shrew’, ‘Savages’ and ‘Richard III’ among others. He also performed with Twelfth Night Theatre Company, notably in ‘Butterflies are Free’ and with The Brisbane Actor’s Company in, ‘The Misenthrope’, ‘Scapino’ and ‘Home’. For Frame & Kennet Productions he was in ‘Heidi Grows Up’ and ‘Hamlet on Ice’ while he worked in several capacities with the Gallery Theatre and appeared in ‘Enemy’, ‘The Passage’, Entertaining Mr Sloane’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’.
He spend a year as a puppeteer for The Puppet People performing in national tours of their large scale black-theatre productions of ‘Bees Hay’ and ‘Spring’. Gregory played David Dannerman in the Reg Grundy soap ‘Until Tomorrow’. He did a lot of Costume work as characters such as ‘Scooby-Doo’ and a certain much loved Bear while he was also Cut Price Sam in the eponymous Saturday morning television show. He acted in radio dramas for the ABC where he also hosted ‘About Health’, an educational series for primary schools. ’Love-Lies-Bleeding’ marks his return to acting.
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Reviews
‘…Gregory Gesch portrays Alex in extremis, both capturing the vulnerability and tragedy of the character’s condition.’
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‘GESCH WHOSE NIGHT IT WAS. Greg Gesch may not be the easiest name to pronounce but it will be one of the easiest to remember. All Greg has to do is to continue producing performances like this effort he is turning on at Twelfth Night and he will make certain of that.’
Brian Johnston - Courier Mail
‘LOVE YOUR ENEMY. The performances of Greg Gesch as the German soldier, and Tom Solly as the Cockney are superb. Both hold the audiences interest through long soliloquies that are as intensely acted as they are written. Their Characteristics and accents are controlled to perfection.
Showtime – Courier Mail
‘PROFESSIONAL MARK STAMPED ON EQUUS... The leading roles of the psychiatrist and the youth were taken splendidly by James Elliot – well known from “No. 96” – and Greg Gesch. It would be hard to imagine these parts done better.’
J.G.C. – Toowoomba Chronicle
‘This “Home” is not a happy one. But it is memorable; and all the more memorable when given such a fine cutting edge by the impact of such acting as I witnessed last night. Here are actors who, by the way they manipulate dialogue and silences, by the way they mime and gesticulate, and stumble and slump, portray people – and even civilisations – shorn of life and faculty...this is a performance of real force.’
David Rowbotham – Courier Mail
Other Theatre, Feature and Short Film, Commercial Work
1981 - Home (Theatre), Brisbane Actors Company, Actor - Jack
1979 - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatre), Queensland Theatre Company, Actor - Lysander
1976 - The Misanthrope (Theatre), The Actors Theatre, Actor - Acaste
1976 - Entertaining Mr Sloane (Theatre), Gallery Theatre, Actor - Mr Sloane
1976 - Equus (Theatre), Queensland Theatre Company, Actor - Alan Strang
1975 - Until Tomorrow (television series), Reg Grundy Pty. Ltd, Actor - David Dannerman
1975- The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre), Queensland Theatre Company, Actor - The Lord
1974 - Enemy (Theatre), Gallery Theatre, Actor - Paul
1974 - Death of a Salesman (Theatre), Queensland Theatre Company, Actor - Stanley
1972 - Butterflies are Free (Theatre), Twelfth Night Theatre Company, Actor - Don Baker
Representation
Freelance