About Gina

Gina Hyams is an actor, artist, and writer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has published a dozen books on mysterious subjects ranging from pie contests, parenting, and incense to death, spas, and décor. Her visual art explorations include photography, improvisatory quilting, drawing, and painting.

Since moving to New Mexico in 2023, Gina has plunged back into acting, which was her first creative passion during her teens and early 20s. She reactivated her SAG-AFTRA union membership and first worked as a featured background actor and stand-in in major studio film and television productions—privileged to act with Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award winners (becoming a freakin’ EGOT of extras), as well as appearing in an array of indie productions directed by emerging New Mexico filmmakers.

Born in Sarasota, Florida, and raised in San Francisco, California, Gina has spent large swaths of adulthood in the Bay Area, the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, Houston, and as an expat in Mexico. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and is long married to artist Dave “DJ” Barrett. They are the proud parents of two rescue pups, Bo Diddley and Lulu, and one swell grown human, Annalena (who is named after an Italian hotel).

For sales inquiries about Gina’s art, potential writing projects, acting gigs, or just to say hello, please contact her at ginahyams@gmail.com.