Gina as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill @ Playhouse Stage Co.

Gina as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill @ Playhouse Stage Co.

GINA-SIMONE PEMBERTON is a stage and screen actor (Audelco Award Nominee), and singer based in New York City, originally born in St. Kitts/Nevis.

Credits include… ​OFF BROADWAY:​ Rose in Fences(Gallery Players), where she was nominated for and AUDELCO Award for Best Lead Actress, Tiana Ross in A Soulful Christmas: A Groovy Musical Revue (The Actors Temple) Gladys in Trilogy 2 (Eugene O’Neill Theatre, NYC), Herself in ​THE FEMALE ROLE MODEL PROJECT​ (Transforma Theater; 3LD, NYC and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019), imsohot@gmail.com in ​USERS​ (The Actors Temple, NYC), Meg in ​TREASURE ISLAND THE MUSICAL​ (The Players Theater, NYC). ​REGIONAL​: Diva in ​PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT​ (Piper Theater Productions, NY), Nancy in ​HENRY “BOX​” BROWN (The Children's Theater Company, NYC), Sister Wendy in ​THE NUN BEFORE CHRISTMAS (The Bell Tower Theater, Dbq, IA), Taylor McKesse in ​HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL​ (Theater Cedar Rapids, CR, IA) and Estelle Genoverse in ​THE FULL MONTY​, Crystal in ​LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, and Sally in ​WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE (The Grand Opera House, DBQ, IA). SCREEN: A Dream For Amy (Lenore), Mack and the Squatter (Tasha), Friday and Friday (Detective Gina): Amazon Prime and Apple TV, Foul Up (Chelsea), The Match Party (Charlene Henderson), The Executed (Maya), Spider-Man: Final Swing (Jess Anderson), We’ll Meet Again (Aunt Lily), The History Will Always Stay (Constance), and Glass Room (Mother)

Pemberton is also a certified music educator, an active member of the Middle Collegiate Church’s Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir, as well as a social justice activist.