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British playwright

Pam Gems (née Iris Pamela Price; 1 August – 13 May )^[1] was an Englishplaywright.^[2] The author of numerous original plays, as well as of adaptations of works by European playwrights of the past, Gems is best known for the musicalplayPiaf.

Personal life

Iris Pamela Price was born in Bransgore, Hampshire, and had her first play – a tale of goblins and elves – staged when she was eight by her fellow pupils at primary school. She studied psychology at Manchester University from which she graduated in ^[3] She was in her forties when she started to write professionally.

She is best known for her musicalplayPiaf about French singer Édith Piaf.^[4]

She was nominated for two Tony Awards: for Stanley (Best Play) in , and for Marlene (Best Book of a Musical), starring Siân Phillips as Marlene Dietrich, in Gems adapted works by dramatists ranging from Henrik Ibsen, Federico García Lorca and Anton Chekhov to