Gayle received a best actress nomination from the Connecticut Critics Circle for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. Broadway: Sunset Boulevard, Grind, Dancin’, Dreamgirls. Off-Broadway: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (The Metropolitan Opera), Sistahs, Little Shop of Horrors (Ronnette), The Dark Star from Harlem (Josephine Baker). Regional: Seven Guitars, The Sunshine Boys, Crowns, Beehive, Chess, Spunk, Joe Louis Blues, The World Goes Round. TV/Film: Bull, Madame Secretary, The Americans, Twenty Good Years, The Class, Black Nativity, The Tides That Bind, HoneyBee. www.gaylesamuels.com

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States