Gabby Compton is an Atlanta-based Theatre and Performance Studies scholar, a Gender and Women's Studies instructor at Kennesaw State University, and a playwright. She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Georgia, an MFA in Playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School, and a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies from UGA. Her research interests include in/visibility in performance and in everyday life, posthumanist entanglements of narrative and place, eco-feminist dramaturgy, applied improvisation, women's experimental playwriting practices, and performances of care in medicine.
She has led creative writing workshops and interdisciplinary performance projects that deploy devised theatre for the past ten years. Recent projects include The Malady Mysteries, which brings together faculty and students from UGA's medical school, Theatre Department, and Institute for Gender and Women's Studies to explore experiences of invisible illness and invisible disability using the framework of the detective murder mystery genre. 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 the nature of cabaret and queerness.
You can find her scholarly research (published under Gabrielle Sinclair Compton) in two upcoming anthologies: Performing the Edible: Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability (Routledge) and Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance: Vol. 1 (Methuen Drama). She's currently serving as conference planner for ATHE's Disability, Theatre, and Performance Focus Group. Check out images from her theatrical work HERE and HERE. You can also find her plays at New Play Exchange. (published under Gabrielle Sinclair).
Gabby is currently developing her dissertation, Peculiar Ways, Hollows, and Voids: Exploring the Heterotopian Performative, into a monograph.
Questions? Get in touch HERE.
She has led creative writing workshops and interdisciplinary performance projects that deploy devised theatre for the past ten years. Recent projects include The Malady Mysteries, which brings together faculty and students from UGA's medical school, Theatre Department, and Institute for Gender and Women's Studies to explore experiences of invisible illness and invisible disability using the framework of the detective murder mystery genre. 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 the nature of cabaret and queerness.
You can find her scholarly research (published under Gabrielle Sinclair Compton) in two upcoming anthologies: Performing the Edible: Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability (Routledge) and Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance: Vol. 1 (Methuen Drama). She's currently serving as conference planner for ATHE's Disability, Theatre, and Performance Focus Group. Check out images from her theatrical work HERE and HERE. You can also find her plays at New Play Exchange. (published under Gabrielle Sinclair).
Gabby is currently developing her dissertation, Peculiar Ways, Hollows, and Voids: Exploring the Heterotopian Performative, into a monograph.
Questions? Get in touch HERE.