Kirsty Gillmore

Kirsty Gillmore is an acclaimed creative freelance Voice & Performance Director and Casting Director for multi-award winning games, animation and audio drama projects. In 2021 she was selected for the prestigious BAFTA Breakthrough UK programme as a Voice Director for Games.

Best known as a Voice & Performance Director for BAFTA Best Game winner Baldur's Gate 3, she has directed and cast actors across the globe, seeking out and shaping performances from fresh talent to celebrities and icons such as Jennifer Hale, David Hayter, Matthew Mercer and Neil Newbon. Recent game credits include Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward), Valorant (Riot Games), Destruction AllStars (Lucid Games), LiveALive (Square Enix), Luna Abyss (Bonsai Collective) and Synapse (nDreams). Animation credits include Shasha & Milo (Discovery Kids, Tencent) and an upcoming series for Netflix.

Trained in theater directing, Kirsty has directed and taught at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (UK), Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (UK) and Guildhall School of Music and Drama (UK). She developed and currently teaches one of the UK's first full-length undergraduate modules in Acting for Video Games, at Institute of Contemporary Theatre. She has been a juror for the BAFTA Games Awards, BAFTA Film Awards and BAFTA Young Game Designer Awards and an invited speaker and panelist for Game Developers Conference (GDC), GameSoundCon, BAFTA and EGX.