Gigi Cervantes, received FFRF’s Civil Rights Heroine Award, was a high school theatre and acting teacher at a fine arts charter school who left her position in protest of the Texas Ten Commandments Statute SB 10. Gigi is a professional actor who has performed for 40-plus years in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, as well as regionally at the Cleveland Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. She also has over 20 years of experience as an acting teacher and has taught classes, camps and workshops at multiple DFW theatre companies. Gigi is also an accomplished singer-songwriter, avid Dallas Cowboys fan, and dog lover who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband Chris, who is a painter, musician, attorney and constitutional law professor, and their two dogs, Donny Osmond and Bill Murray (Donny & Murray).
