Jay Gelter

Jay Gelter received his first professional acting role at the age of six and has been deeply engaged in theater ever since. He has acted in, produced, directed, or designed more than 30 shows for the Vermont Theatre Company and is a former board president. He has frequently taught acting and lighting design at the New England Youth Theater, where he is an alumni. Additional local work includes original-work development with Sandglass Puppet Theater of Putney, acting with Actors’ Theatre Playhouse of West Chesterfield, and tech support for the Brattleboro School of Dance and Vermont Performance Lab. He is committed to creating community-based theater for the betterment of the Brattleboro community. He and his wife Jess, have written and directed “The Forest of Mystery,” a benefit for the Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center, for the last 7 years. They also wrote and directed A Christmas Carol for the Vermont Theatre Company five years in a row, an effort that gather hundreds of food items and raised hundreds of dollars for the Groundworks Collaborative. Jay founded the Baker Street Readers, a performance group that presents readings of Sherlock Holmes mysteries every month at the Hooker-Dunham Theater in Brattleboro.