Gerard has worked extensively in film, television and theatre, both as an
actor and as a director.
Film credits (as an actor) include: Waterworld, Commission, Girl in a
Swing, and Sacred Hearts.
Television credits include: McCallum, Father Ted, The Governor, Taggart,
Keats, Facing the Sun, My Son My Son, The Plough and the Stars, The Best of
Friends and Catchpenny Twist.
As an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Gerard has appeared
in: The Theban Plays, The Taming of the Shrew, Doctor Faustus, Speculators,
Deathwatch, The Maids, The Balcony, Two Noble Kinsmen, A Midsummer Night's
Dream, Country Dancing, Henry IV - Parts I and II, The Witch of Edmonton, Juno
and the Paycock, Volpone and The Atheist's Tragedy.
Other theatre work includes: Citizens Theatre - The Soldiers,
Chinchilla, Macbeth, The Importance of Being Earnest, Coriolanus, Woyzeck, Romeo
and Juliet; Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - The Manchurian Candidate, The
Devil and the Good Lord; Greenwich Theatre - The White Devil, The Glass
Menagerie; Andrew's Lane, Dublin - Kiss of the Spider Woman; Old
Vic - Phaedra; Theatre Royal Stratford East - Masterpieces; and
many others. He also played the part of Jesus in Broken Nails at St
Peter's Cathedral and he translated The Hypochondriac and played the
part of Argan in the production by the Cambridge Theatre Company. In the USA, he
has appeared with Shakespeare Santa Cruz in Julius Caesar and Antony
and Cleopatra and with the Acter Tour in As You Like It.
His work as a director, in addition to the productions named above,
includes: Wasp at the Edinburgh Festival, The Merchant of Venice
and As You Like It at the Globe, Tokyo, The Caucasian Chalk Circle
at the Lyceum, Edinburgh, Seascape at the Finborough, No Man is an
Island for the RSC Youth Group, and several productions for the RSC: The
Maids, Deathwatch and Edward II.
He has also worked extensively in radio, audio books and narration.
