Virginia Gay

Biography

Born in Sydney, Gay attended Summer Hill Public School and Newtown High School of the Performing Arts in Sydney as a drama and music student. She studied English literature and performance studies at Sydney University and was a member of the Sydney University Dramatic Society from 2001 to 2003. She left Sydney University and enrolled at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), at the Edith Cowan University, Perth, where she graduated in 2005 with an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts. She won the Coles Myer Institute Vocational Student of the Year award and the prestigious Sangora Education Foundation Award for Vocational Education and Training.

In 2022 Virginia Gay wrote and performed in the play, Cyrano for the Melbourne Theatre Company. The play is a gender – flipped, modern re-imagining of Cyrano de Bergerac written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand.