Gabrielle Compton (aka Gabrielle Sinclair Compton) (she/they) is a playwright and deviser, a theatre and performance studies researcher, and a teacher. She earned her MFA in Playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University and recently completed her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Georgia.
As an interdisciplinary scholar-artist, Gabrielle uses performance theory and spatial theory to investigate subject formation at intersections of placemaking and power. Her work is grounded in critical disability theory and feminist research methods, and her focus includes experimental theatre practices post-1960, the fantastic, and performances of care in everyday life. Her research is included in the forthcoming edited collections Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance, Vol. 1: Performers and Performing the Edible: Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability. She is currently co-leading a grant-funded interdisciplinary project at the University of Georgia that brings together members of the Theatre Department and the School of Medicine to develop a new play set at the dawn of modern medicine, modern policing, and the modern detective story.
Gabrielle's plays 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), Joan and the Gentleman Juggler (The Metropolitan Playhouse Living Literature Festival), and Ghost Notes (North Carolina New Play Prize). Additionally, Gabrielle has developed new work through the Actors Studio Playwright-Directors Workshop (The Auctioneer), as a deviser with Annoyance Theatre (Frostbite), and in playwright residencies across the country.
As an interdisciplinary scholar-artist, Gabrielle uses performance theory and spatial theory to investigate subject formation at intersections of placemaking and power. Her work is grounded in critical disability theory and feminist research methods, and her focus includes experimental theatre practices post-1960, the fantastic, and performances of care in everyday life. Her research is included in the forthcoming edited collections Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance, Vol. 1: Performers and Performing the Edible: Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability. She is currently co-leading a grant-funded interdisciplinary project at the University of Georgia that brings together members of the Theatre Department and the School of Medicine to develop a new play set at the dawn of modern medicine, modern policing, and the modern detective story.
Gabrielle's plays 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), Joan and the Gentleman Juggler (The Metropolitan Playhouse Living Literature Festival), and Ghost Notes (North Carolina New Play Prize). Additionally, Gabrielle has developed new work through the Actors Studio Playwright-Directors Workshop (The Auctioneer), as a deviser with Annoyance Theatre (Frostbite), and in playwright residencies across the country.