Gabby Compton (aka Gabrielle Sinclair) (she/they) is an award-winning playwright, a theatre and performance studies scholar, a dramaturg, and a teacher, whose creative work has been developed and produced across the country and internationally.
As a scholar-artist, Gabby uses landscape-based dramaturgy, disability theory, and feminist research practices to investigate placemaking and care in both experimental playwriting strategies and in everyday life. Her research findings are included in the forthcoming anthologies Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance and Performing the Edible: Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability.
Gabby is currently co-leading a grant-funded interdisciplinary project that brings together theatrical devisers from UGA's Theatre Department and School of Medicine, to develop a new play set at the dawn of modern medicine, modern policing, and the modern detective story.
Plays (credited as Gabrielle Sinclair) include: The Resolute (Wyoming Theater Festival, Jane Chambers award finalist, the Hewitt School in NYC), Showing (Ingram New Works fellowship, workshop production with Hidden Well Theatre), Alcestis (UGA main stage), The Bride Project (Love Me Gender Festival, Vienna), Telling the Bees (Georgia Theatre Conference One-Act Play Competition winner), and Ghost Notes (North Carolina New Play Prize).
MFA Playwriting — Actors Studio Drama School. PhD Theatre and Performance Studies — University of Georgia.
As a scholar-artist, Gabby uses landscape-based dramaturgy, disability theory, and feminist research practices to investigate placemaking and care in both experimental playwriting strategies and in everyday life. Her research findings are included in the forthcoming anthologies Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance and Performing the Edible: Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability.
Gabby is currently co-leading a grant-funded interdisciplinary project that brings together theatrical devisers from UGA's Theatre Department and School of Medicine, to develop a new play set at the dawn of modern medicine, modern policing, and the modern detective story.
Plays (credited as Gabrielle Sinclair) include: The Resolute (Wyoming Theater Festival, Jane Chambers award finalist, the Hewitt School in NYC), Showing (Ingram New Works fellowship, workshop production with Hidden Well Theatre), Alcestis (UGA main stage), The Bride Project (Love Me Gender Festival, Vienna), Telling the Bees (Georgia Theatre Conference One-Act Play Competition winner), and Ghost Notes (North Carolina New Play Prize).
MFA Playwriting — Actors Studio Drama School. PhD Theatre and Performance Studies — University of Georgia.