Gabby is a director, actor and arts educator who grew up south of Charlotte, NC. She attended Central Academy of Technology and Arts through the theatre academy prior to coming to University of North Carolina School of the Arts for a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Directing. She’s collected a conglomerate of experiences in many different theatrical roles from actress to scenic designer to theatre camp counselor and more. However, she has always been drawn to the indubitable power of connection within theatrical directing.
As a director, Gabby is interested in the vibrant full scope of the human experience and explores this through the deeply saturated relationship between the seemingly contradictory: connection and chaos, vulnerability and strength, and ordinary and theatrical. She is often drawn to what is “taboo”, messy, disorderly, or disgustingly raw. She hopes that through fully embracing our “imperfections” we can better capture the essence of humanity and in turn breed more open-minded communities.
While at UNC School of the Arts she assisted Dean John Langs on A Little Night Music, Mina Oelrich on The Moors, and Acadia Barrengos on Macbeth. Her solo directing projects include the second scene of Five Times in One Night by Chiara Atik, an excerpt from Three Sisters translated by Sarah Ruhl, and an upcoming cut of The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder.
