Gabby Compton (aka Gabrielle Sinclair) is an Atlanta-based interdisciplinary arts researcher and playwright specializing in Performance Theory, Applied Improvisation, and More-then-Human Dramaturgy. She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Georgia, an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Actors Studio Drama School, and a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. She has also studied with and performed at The Annoyance Theatre in Chicago and iOWest in Los Angeles. Her research interests include in/visibility on stage and in everyday life, posthumanist entanglements of narrative and place, women's experimental playwriting practices, and performances of care.
For the past decade, Gabrielle has been creating and leading interdisciplinary performance projects to foster communities and collaboratively investigate questions of cultural narratives, place, and identity. Following her MFA in Dramatic Writing, she founded The Storyhound Theatrical Detective Agency in Greensboro, NC, where she designed and facilitated collaborative happenings through local residencies and a collaboration with UNC-Greensboro. Projects, including large-scale games of creative "Telephone," a collective investigation of the body using the four humors, and new plays for infants and their grown-ups, connected more than 100 participating community artists, among them playwrights, choreographers, composers, filmmakers, and poets. While at UGA, Gabrielle received grants including a UGA Arts Collaborative grant, a Willson Center grant to produce her short film Listen, and a Mellon Building Intersectional Southern Futures grant. At UGA she co-founded The Malady Mysteries project, which brings together faculty and students from UGA's medical school, Theatre Department, and Institute for Women's and Gender Studies to explore experiences of invisible illness and invisible disability using the framework of the detective murder mystery play. In fall 2025, she served as co-director of [The Restoration Project], a grant-funded project in which students through Emory's Theatre Arts creatively investigated cabaret as a site of queer meaning-making.
Gabrielle writes plays (as Gabrielle Sinclair) that have been developed and performed across the country and internationally. Works include THE RESOLUTE (Wyoming Theatre Festival, Jane Chambers Award finalist, The Hewitt School in NYC), SHOWING (Ingram New Works Project, North Georgia New Play Festival), THE BRIDE PROJECT (Love Me Gender Festival, Vienna) and TELLING THE BEES (Winner, Georgia Theatre Conference One-Act Play Competition).
You can find Gabrielle's scholarly research (published under Gabrielle Sinclair Compton) in the anthologies Performing the Edible: Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability (Routledge) and Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance: Vol. 1 (Methuen Drama). Check out images from her theatrical work HERE and HERE. You can find her plays at New Play Exchange. She currently teaches courses in Gender and Women's Studies as well as English Composition at Kennesaw State University.
Questions? Get in touch HERE.
For the past decade, Gabrielle has been creating and leading interdisciplinary performance projects to foster communities and collaboratively investigate questions of cultural narratives, place, and identity. Following her MFA in Dramatic Writing, she founded The Storyhound Theatrical Detective Agency in Greensboro, NC, where she designed and facilitated collaborative happenings through local residencies and a collaboration with UNC-Greensboro. Projects, including large-scale games of creative "Telephone," a collective investigation of the body using the four humors, and new plays for infants and their grown-ups, connected more than 100 participating community artists, among them playwrights, choreographers, composers, filmmakers, and poets. While at UGA, Gabrielle received grants including a UGA Arts Collaborative grant, a Willson Center grant to produce her short film Listen, and a Mellon Building Intersectional Southern Futures grant. At UGA she co-founded The Malady Mysteries project, which brings together faculty and students from UGA's medical school, Theatre Department, and Institute for Women's and Gender Studies to explore experiences of invisible illness and invisible disability using the framework of the detective murder mystery play. In fall 2025, she served as co-director of [The Restoration Project], a grant-funded project in which students through Emory's Theatre Arts creatively investigated cabaret as a site of queer meaning-making.
Gabrielle writes plays (as Gabrielle Sinclair) that have been developed and performed across the country and internationally. Works include THE RESOLUTE (Wyoming Theatre Festival, Jane Chambers Award finalist, The Hewitt School in NYC), SHOWING (Ingram New Works Project, North Georgia New Play Festival), THE BRIDE PROJECT (Love Me Gender Festival, Vienna) and TELLING THE BEES (Winner, Georgia Theatre Conference One-Act Play Competition).
You can find Gabrielle's scholarly research (published under Gabrielle Sinclair Compton) in the anthologies Performing the Edible: Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability (Routledge) and Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance: Vol. 1 (Methuen Drama). Check out images from her theatrical work HERE and HERE. You can find her plays at New Play Exchange. She currently teaches courses in Gender and Women's Studies as well as English Composition at Kennesaw State University.
Questions? Get in touch HERE.