Having excelled at theatre, film and tourism, Gem...
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annual satirical review, Stretched Out Magazine that was produced for television every December while she was at Prime Time and the Theatre Company.
She left the Theatre Company in 2002 and started Gem’s Theatre Productions.
Over the years, she has hosted several international groups including Paul Keens Douglas and his top ten from Trinidad and Tobago and has done several tours. “When I co-produced Michael Gilkes ‘Last of the Red Men’, we took it to Trinidad, St Lucia and Barbados,” she said
She took the satirical show, “Half Past Late” in 2005 to Toronto, Canada.
She did the Hurricane Ivan Relief Concert for Grenada at the NCC. She coordinated the concert, an initiative of Guyanese Keith Waithe from London, for the Guyana Relief Council in 2005 held at the National Park.
She has also assisted in fund-raising for the local rugby fraternity. “I got the ruggers running the bar, helping with security at the NCC and even holding doors sometimes,” she said.
Tourism
Apart from banking, insurance, advertising and the gamut of theatrical productions, this multifaceted career woman managed the Hurakabra River Resort on the Essequibo River from 2006 to 2022 after which she and her husband Christopher ‘Kit’ Nascimento sold it to a Guyanese Canadian who has kept it as a tourism facility. The Nascimentos still frequent the resort.
Madhoo-Nascimento still plays her role in tourism through her handbook, “Guyana - Where & What”, which she has published annually since the 2007 Cricket World Cup with the exception of 2020/2021 when the Covid-19 pandemic was at its peak. She is proud to now be working on her 16th publication.
Madhoo-Nascimento has received several awards for theatre productions, as well as the Young Women’s Christian Association ‘Women of Distinction Award’, an enabler award from the Guyana Cultural Association of New York and a lifetime achievement award from the Institute of Creative Arts, Ministry of Culture.
Madhoo-Nascimento was the longest serving non-paid secretary of the Guyana Motor Racing Club from 1982 to 1992. She was also active with United Women for Special Children, a charitable organisation that nearly collapsed due to conflicting issues among its members. She played a major role in keeping the club going.
“Right now I am also doing research for my husband’s book and I have to twist his arms to get some things done,” she said.