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. Gabrielle's work, as both a performance studies scholar and playwright, lies at the intersections of subject formation, placemaking, and power in society and in art.
As a scholar (publishing and teaching under Gabrielle S. Compton), she uses landscape-based dramaturgy and a critical disability theory lens to illuminate strategies of subversive rest, world-building, and care in both scripted performance and in everyday life. Her research on the shared performance of feeding and eating in the ICU will be featured in the upcoming edited collection, Performing the Edible.
As a playwright (credited as Gabrielle Sinclair), she writes and devises new plays about outsiders who rupture dominant narratives within established genres through the brazen act of lingering within them. She does this to ask questions about genre, character, structure, and play development, such as what constitutes "a woman's play?" What is the nature of the mysticism within a sports narrative? How can the coziness of an immersive murder mystery carry over to elements of care in our play development process? What is the breaking point between home and un-home in a kitchen sink drama? Images from Gabrielle's plays are available to check out HERE and HERE. You can also find her work at New Play Exchange.
As a scholar (publishing and teaching under Gabrielle S. Compton), she uses landscape-based dramaturgy and a critical disability theory lens to illuminate strategies of subversive rest, world-building, and care in both scripted performance and in everyday life. Her research on the shared performance of feeding and eating in the ICU will be featured in the upcoming edited collection, Performing the Edible.
As a playwright (credited as Gabrielle Sinclair), she writes and devises new plays about outsiders who rupture dominant narratives within established genres through the brazen act of lingering within them. She does this to ask questions about genre, character, structure, and play development, such as what constitutes "a woman's play?" What is the nature of the mysticism within a sports narrative? How can the coziness of an immersive murder mystery carry over to elements of care in our play development process? What is the breaking point between home and un-home in a kitchen sink drama? Images from Gabrielle's plays are available to check out HERE and HERE. You can also find her work at New Play Exchange.