Gemma is a screenwriter and story editor. She studied history at King’s College London before pursuing a career in the film industry. While working, she studied Screenwriting at the Met Film School and Script Development at the NFTS.

Gemma was accepted into the UCLA Advanced Writers Workshop in 2017, and her feature films have placed in recent competitions. SPARROW FARM was a semifinalist for the Academy’s Nicholl Fellowship in 2019, and she was among the top 10 highest-scoring women. SMALL TOWN won the Bronze Prize at the Page Awards in 2019, and RUNNING was a semifinalist at the Atlanta Film Festival and Page Awards in 2018.

In 2019, Gemma was hired to co-write a television pilot with Alex MacKeith for Banijay Studios. Between 2021–2025, she worked on the television drama MARIE ANTOINETTE (Canal+/BBC) as a story editor and associate producer. She is currently attached as a writer on season two of AMSTERDAM EMPIRE (Netflix).