Biography
Gwyn studied theater and play writing at Carnegie-Mellon University, and was an Emmy Award nominated Daytime TV actress with over a dozen contract and recurring roles- as well as appearing on Primetime TV series and pilots. Favorites include: All My Children, (ABC), Guiding Light (CBS), As The World Turns, One Life to Live, Another World (NBC) , Loving, Ryan's Hope, The Lucy Arnaz Show (CBS) and the Emmy Award winning, Woman of Valor (NBC). Most recently she co-starred as Dr. Shirley Levine in the Howard Reichman comedy pilot, Wired City and as Lizzie Haupt in her own "boomedy", Haupt Air. Performing on and off Broadway, Gwyn also worked extensively in classical Repertory theater productions across the country-from Shakespeare, Moliere, Tennessee Williams to Noel Coward and Arthur Miller. She received rave reviews for her Elmire in Moliere's Tartuffe and Elvira in Coward's Blithe Spirit. On Broadway she was in Kaufman and Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner at the Circle in the Square and co-starred opposite Tammy Grimes and Ian Richardson in Joshua Logan's (Mister Roberts, South Pacific) last play, Trick. She toured in the 1940's American classic, Arsenic and Old Lace opposite Golden Age film stars John Carradine and Sylvia Sidney and played the comedic ingenue, Avril in June Havoc's (Actor's Studio) Broadway tryout of the musical, Oh Glorious Tintinnabulation. Off Broadway Gwyn played Rosaline in the modern rock musical version of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost at the Cherry Lane Theater and Crystal in The Women at Manhattan Theater Club. Gwyn was in demand as a corporate spokeswoman for dozens of network commercials and voice-overs from Mercedes, AT & T, Macy's to Brim Coffee and received a Cleo award as the voice of L'Oreal. She received a post graduate grant to study Economics at Harvard and attended a graduate program in Political Science at Oxford University. Requested by her former Dean from Carnegie, she was a guest professor in the MFA drama programs at Yale and University of CA, Irvine. As a keynote speaker for the Actor's Expo, Gwyn has lectured to actors in London, New York, Paris and Los Angeles. Requested by the Performing Arts trade publication, Backstage, Gwyn writes a monthly column about marketing for a subscription of over 250,000 international actors, writers and directors. Gwyn founded Laight Street Films in Robert DeNiro's Tribeca (NYC) film community, creating Bloggers, a comedy pilot (HBO style). Her film, Fairytale which was recently shot in Paris and the south of France with an international cast was well received at the Festival of Cannes, selected by the Beverly Hills Film Festival, The International Faith and Family Film script competition and won First place in the Hanhai Film Studio's International Script Competition for her recent drama, Pink Slip with an offer of a production contract. Her prime time drama, Enraptured is optioned for an Australian TV production and her comedy film, Heavenly Heist is in pre-production in London.
