Gbemisola
Ikumelo

Gbemisola has a diverse storytelling background from acting to writing and directing. In 2020 she won the BAFTA for Best Short Form Programme for BRAIN IN GEAR; that she wrote, co-directed and starred in.  

This year she received a Royal Television Society Award (Comedy Performance- Female) for her work on hit BBC sketch show FAMALAM, for which she is also a writer. In addition, she is currently BAFTA nominated for a second concurrent year for Best Female Performance in a Comedy, also for FAMALAM. 

As an actress, Gbemisola starred in BIFA award winning film THE LAST TREE, directed by Shola Amoo. The feature premiered at Sundance Film Festival and had a UK Theatrical release. She can also be seen playing Nurse Comfort in newly released British horror film – THE POWER. For the stage, she played Maria in the Young Vic’s adaptation of A Twelfth Night and her own play THE DEN received an Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre award and was supported by the Barbican. Most recently she has been cast in the Sony Studios TV adaptation of Penny Marshall's A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, her own creation Brain in Gear has been greenlit for a series on BBC 2 and she has a Sci-Fi Drama currently under option.