In 2011 at the Brighton Festival she played Rattigan’s mother Vera in "The Art of Concealment", a new play; and toured the UK as Norah in "Star Quality" by Noël Coward, as Matron in "Doctor In The House", as Verity Carr in "Morse", in "House of Ghosts", and as Helena in "Maurice’s Jubilee" by Nichola MacAuliffe. She was Mrs Pearce in "My Fair Lady" at Kilworth House Theatre, 2013; Gay later played Mrs Higgins in the musical on a tour of Denmark. At the Birmingham Rep she was the Storyteller in Stiles and Drew’s new musical version of "Peter Pan", and Fraulein Schneider in "Cabaret" at Frankfurt; played in "Cole" in Hong Kong, "Betjemania" and "Narnia" in New York, and Ruth in "Blithe Spirit" in Stockholm, and Cherry May Waterton in Coward's "Nude with Violin" at the Royal Exchange Manchester for Marianne Elliott.