Gabrielle Sinclair Compton is a Georgia-based interdisciplinary 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. Her research interests include in/visibility in performance and in everyday life, posthumanist entanglements of narrative and place, more-than-human dramaturgy, applied improvisation, women's experimental playwriting practices between 1960 and 1990, and performances of care in medicine.
You can find her scholarly research 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 a conference planner for ATHE's Disability, Theatre, and Performance Focus Group. Check out images from Gabby's theatrical work HERE and HERE. You can also find her work at New Play Exchange. Learn about The Malady Mysteries, a performance-as-research project between theatre, medicine, and gender and women's studies she co-created at UGA.
Questions? Get in touch HERE.
You can find her scholarly research 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 a conference planner for ATHE's Disability, Theatre, and Performance Focus Group. Check out images from Gabby's theatrical work HERE and HERE. You can also find her work at New Play Exchange. Learn about The Malady Mysteries, a performance-as-research project between theatre, medicine, and gender and women's studies she co-created at UGA.
Questions? Get in touch HERE.