Hello! My name is Gabrielle Sinclair Compton (she/they). (You can call me Gabby.) I'm a playwright, interdisciplinary scholar-artist, and a college instructor living in Atlanta, GA. I earned my MFA in Playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University, and I recently completed my PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Georgia. Guided by feminist praxis, my playwriting and scholarly research bring together landscape-based dramaturgy, critical disability theory, and performance to examine strategies toward disruptive rest, placemaking, and care.
A bit about me and what I do...
I write plays (as Gabrielle Sinclair). My work includes THE RESOLUTE (Wyoming Theatre Festival, Jane Chambers Award Finalist), SHOWING (Ingram New Works, North Georgia New Play Festival), and THE BRIDE PROJECT (Austria tour). My sensory theatre play, THIS LITTLE LIGHT, was developed through a residency at Athica in Athens, GA, and supported by funding from the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies at UGA. As co-lead of THE RESTORATION PROJECT at Emory University, I'm co-developing an original queer cabaret with students through devised theatre practices. Check out images from my theatrical work HERE and HERE. You can also find my work at New Play Exchange.
I research performance. (Published under Gabrielle Sinclair Compton). You can find my scholarly work 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). I'm serving as conference planner for ATHE's Disability, Theatre, and Performance Focus Group. And I co-created and am the devising dramaturg for THE MALADY MYSTERIES, an ongoing performance-as-research project that brings together the murder mystery genre and experiences in medical care, in partnership with UGA's Department of Theater, UGA's Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, and UGA's School of Medicine.
I teach (as Dr. Gabrielle Compton). I'm a part-time Assistant Professor in Gender and Women's Studies at Kennesaw State University. I've previously taught college courses in dramatic writing and theatre studies, monster studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and academic research at places such as Greensboro College, the University of Georgia, and Oxford College at Emory.
Any questions? Get in touch HERE.
A bit about me and what I do...
I write plays (as Gabrielle Sinclair). My work includes THE RESOLUTE (Wyoming Theatre Festival, Jane Chambers Award Finalist), SHOWING (Ingram New Works, North Georgia New Play Festival), and THE BRIDE PROJECT (Austria tour). My sensory theatre play, THIS LITTLE LIGHT, was developed through a residency at Athica in Athens, GA, and supported by funding from the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies at UGA. As co-lead of THE RESTORATION PROJECT at Emory University, I'm co-developing an original queer cabaret with students through devised theatre practices. Check out images from my theatrical work HERE and HERE. You can also find my work at New Play Exchange.
I research performance. (Published under Gabrielle Sinclair Compton). You can find my scholarly work 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). I'm serving as conference planner for ATHE's Disability, Theatre, and Performance Focus Group. And I co-created and am the devising dramaturg for THE MALADY MYSTERIES, an ongoing performance-as-research project that brings together the murder mystery genre and experiences in medical care, in partnership with UGA's Department of Theater, UGA's Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, and UGA's School of Medicine.
I teach (as Dr. Gabrielle Compton). I'm a part-time Assistant Professor in Gender and Women's Studies at Kennesaw State University. I've previously taught college courses in dramatic writing and theatre studies, monster studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and academic research at places such as Greensboro College, the University of Georgia, and Oxford College at Emory.
Any questions? Get in touch HERE.