Michael Arthur Gilkes (5 November 1933 – 14 April 2020)[1][2] was a Caribbean literary critic, dramatist, poet, filmmaker and university lecturer.
[9] In Bermuda he directed plays and taught a theatre workshop put on by the Department of Community & Cultural Affairs at The Berkeley Institute.
An unfinished project that Gilkes was working on was the film Maira and the Jaguar People, set in the Rupununi in 2016,[2][10] with a cast mainly featuring the indigenous Makushi population of Surama.
[11] His play Couvade was first performed in 1972 at the first Carifesta,[12][13] and in 1978 was produced at the Keskidee Centre in London, directed by Rufus Collins, with a cast including Imruh Caesar and others.
[16] His play A Pleasant Career, about the life and fiction of Edgar Mittelholzer, won the Guyana Prize for Drama in 1992.