Gail has produced feature films that have grossed $1.3 billion in box office receipts. Her produced films include Pawn Sacrifice, about Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky’s greatest chess match ever, starring Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stulbarg, directed by Edward Zwick, The Perfect Storm, starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane and John C. Reilly, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, Air Force One, starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Glenn Close, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, Outbreak, starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey and Cuba Gooding, Jr., directed by Wolfgang Petersen, In the Line of Fire, starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich and Rene Russo, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, Bicentennial Man, starring Robin Williams and Sam Neill, directed by Chris Columbus, Instinct, starring Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding, directed by Jon Turteltaub, Mighty Joe Young starring Charlize Theron and Bill Paxton, directed by Ron Underwood, and Red Corner, starring Richard Gere and Bai Ling, directed by Jon Avnet, and Shattered, starring Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins and Greta Scacchi, directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Her films have received 9 Academy Award nominations.

In television, Gail was Executive Producer of The College Admissions Scandal on Lifetime, seven months after the public exposure of the widespread bribery and fraud scheme. It starred Penelope Ann Miller and Mia Kirshner. Gail was Executive Producer of the ABC series Cashmere Mafia, starring Lucy Liu, about 4 successful friends who met in business school, based upon Gail’s own experiences. She was also Executive Producer of the CBS series about the CIA, The Agency starring Beau Bridges, Jason O’Mara, and Will Patton.

Gail’s enduring interest in theatre led her to invest in the 2024 Broadway-bound Alex Edelman one-man show, Just For Us, which won a special Tony Award as well as an Emmy Award for the HBO-filmed version. Gail also produced the play Lessons starring Mare Winningham and Hal Linden and ran to sold-out houses in Los Angeles.

Gail is a tenured Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the Mary Pickford Endowed Chair, and the SCA Faculty Chair. She served as Chair of the Film and Television Production Division in 2021-24 and Head of the Producing Program 2017-21. She has taught film producing in core graduate production courses, “The Pitch Class,” and created a TV drama capstone class called “Straight to Series,” to mirror the industry which a development semester Writers Room and a team-taught production semester where students produce the short streaming drama series. The class has also been adapted for comedy series. For Fall 2024, Gail devised a unique lecture course, “How They Made It,” about the making of the hit film Barbie, from IP through distribution. With over 100 students, the class guests included the CEOs of Mattel and Warner Bros, as well as director Greta Gerwig and every major creative department head on the blockbuster film. The class has become a template for additional classes centering on other ground-breaking films. Another innovative class proposal from Gail is a capstone class for students to make Docuseries, which will launch in Spring 2025.

Gail received an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Producers United, and The Producers Guild. A Los Angeles native, she lives in Santa Monica with her husband, attorney Bruce Wessel. They have two grown children.