Thought-provoking playwright, contemporary actor, and educator, Jeremy Gillett is an Assistant Professor of Acting at the University of Kentucky and a 2022 and 2021 semi-finalist of the BAY AREA Playwright Festival for his play, The Get Back. His play Trap House was a 2019 semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neil Theatre Center and was published in 2024. Jeremy has produced, acted, and been cast in National commercials and feature films such as: Hitting the Cycle, Car Dogs(Netflix), 7th & Union(Amazon Prime), and Raptors, executively produced by Martin Lawrence.

Jeremy was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for his role in the award-winning independent film Raptors at the L.A. Film Festival. In 2021 Raptors went on to win Best Comedy at the Las Vegas Black Film Festival, and it was here that Jeremy won The Best Live Actor award. Author and creator of "Black and 25 in America," Jeremy shares a series of vignettes about the lives of young Black people in America and mobilizes audiences around the country towards empathy and compassion for humanity through stories that explore issues of race, class, gender, and identity.

Jeremy is a graduate of Bluegrass Community Technical College where he became interested in acting. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and Arizona State University. Jeremy earned a Master's in Fine Arts (M.F.A.) from Arizona State University. After receiving an acting scholarship and teaching fellowship at ASU., he later became ASU.'s first student named as The Broadway League and ATPAM's First National Diversity Intern for the musicals Memphis and Motown.

Jeremy is an Irene Ryan award recipient and a ZONI award-nominated actor for his role as Chad Deity in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Stray Cat Theater in Phoenix, AZ. Jeremy’s first professional role as a theatre actor was in August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom(Cutler).

Born in Cedar Falls, IA, and raised in Chicago and Kentucky, Jeremy is a humanitarian and educator. His playwriting focuses on the lived experiences of those who live at the margins of society.

A member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the Screen Actors Guild, Jeremy seeks to provide hope and a voice through theatre, education, and faith. "I want to share the stories of characters in such a way that people want to care about them regardless of their station in life. Acting is my way of helping all of us see the humanity of another person," says Jeremy.