Gabby Compton (aka Gabrielle Sinclair) is an Atlanta-based interdisciplinary arts researcher and playwright working at the intersection of performance theory, applied improvisation, and more-than-human dramaturgy. She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Georgia, and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Actors Studio Drama School. Her work also draws on training in devised theatre and improvisation from The Annoyance Theatre (Chicago) and iO West (Los Angeles).
Her research explores in/visibility in performance and everyday life, posthumanist entanglements of narrative and place, feminist experimental theatre, and performances of care. Across teaching, scholarship, and creative practice, she develops interdisciplinary projects that use performance as a method for inquiry, collaboration, and community engagement.
For more than a decade, she has created and facilitated performance-based projects that bring artists and communities together to investigate cultural narratives, embodied knowledge, and place. After her MFA, she founded The Storyhound Theatrical Detective Agency in Greensboro, NC, leading collaborative residencies and participatory works with more than 100 artists across disciplines, including playwrights, choreographers, composers, filmmakers, and poets. Projects have included large-scale collaborative storytelling games, devised explorations of embodied knowledge, and theatre for very young audiences.
While at the University of Georgia, she co-founded The Malady Mysteries, an interdisciplinary health humanities project bringing together medical, theatre, and women’s studies perspectives to explore invisible illness and disability through performance. She also received support from the UGA Arts Collaborative, the Willson Center, and the Mellon Building Intersectional Southern Futures initiative. In 2025, she co-directed The Restoration Project at Emory University, a grant-funded devised theatre project exploring queer cabaret as a site of creative research and meaning-making.
As a playwright (Gabrielle Sinclair), her work has been developed and produced nationally and internationally, including The Resolute (Wyoming Theatre Festival; Jane Chambers Award finalist), Showing (North Georgia New Play Festival; Ingram New Works Project), The Bride Project (Love Me Gender Festival, Vienna), and Telling the Bees (Georgia Theatre Conference One-Act Winner).
Her scholarly writing appears in Routledge and Methuen Drama anthologies, including Performing the Edible and Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance. She currently teaches courses in Gender and Women’s Studies and English Composition at Kennesaw State University.
Check out images from her playwriting, devising, and directing HERE and HERE. You can find her plays at New Play Exchange.
Questions? Get in touch HERE.
Her research explores in/visibility in performance and everyday life, posthumanist entanglements of narrative and place, feminist experimental theatre, and performances of care. Across teaching, scholarship, and creative practice, she develops interdisciplinary projects that use performance as a method for inquiry, collaboration, and community engagement.
For more than a decade, she has created and facilitated performance-based projects that bring artists and communities together to investigate cultural narratives, embodied knowledge, and place. After her MFA, she founded The Storyhound Theatrical Detective Agency in Greensboro, NC, leading collaborative residencies and participatory works with more than 100 artists across disciplines, including playwrights, choreographers, composers, filmmakers, and poets. Projects have included large-scale collaborative storytelling games, devised explorations of embodied knowledge, and theatre for very young audiences.
While at the University of Georgia, she co-founded The Malady Mysteries, an interdisciplinary health humanities project bringing together medical, theatre, and women’s studies perspectives to explore invisible illness and disability through performance. She also received support from the UGA Arts Collaborative, the Willson Center, and the Mellon Building Intersectional Southern Futures initiative. In 2025, she co-directed The Restoration Project at Emory University, a grant-funded devised theatre project exploring queer cabaret as a site of creative research and meaning-making.
As a playwright (Gabrielle Sinclair), her work has been developed and produced nationally and internationally, including The Resolute (Wyoming Theatre Festival; Jane Chambers Award finalist), Showing (North Georgia New Play Festival; Ingram New Works Project), The Bride Project (Love Me Gender Festival, Vienna), and Telling the Bees (Georgia Theatre Conference One-Act Winner).
Her scholarly writing appears in Routledge and Methuen Drama anthologies, including Performing the Edible and Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance. She currently teaches courses in Gender and Women’s Studies and English Composition at Kennesaw State University.
Check out images from her playwriting, devising, and directing HERE and HERE. You can find her plays at New Play Exchange.
Questions? Get in touch HERE.