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Yvonne Gougelet

Yvonne Gougelet is a playwright, theater producer, actress, activist and political & music journalist. She has performed in the theater for 20 years in nearly 50 plays in London, Scotland, Chile, NYC, Chicago, Miami & Tampa. She has written, produced, directed & performed in four original plays. She has appeared in films at Sundance, Tribeca Film Festival & the Cinemed Mediterranean Film Festival in France.

Her political work began in 2007 as a voting rights activist, having registered thousands of people to vote. The past ten years she's worked with numerous non-profit organizations wearing multiple hats, raising awareness about critical world issues.

She's currently preparing for a Florida tour of her 4th original play, "Voices of the Gulf", a play about the BP Oil Spill. When she's not performing or protesting, she's off taking photos at a concert or music festival. 
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Photos: Every platinum look we saw at Dunedin Fine Art Center’s sold-out ‘Wearable Art’ 20th anniversary

The show featured mainstay designers as well as newcomers.
by Ray Roa and Yvonne Gougelet

Once again, a ticket to Dunedin Fine Art Center’s Wearable Art show was hard to find. For the last 20 years, the Pinellas institution has totally blurred the lines between fashion and art, leaning hard into the latter to push the boundaries of what the human body can achieve when it becomes a canvas. At […]

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