Gabrielle is scholar and a professional dramaturg and director in Chicago. Her recent collaborations include co-directing We are Proud to Present a Presentation…, by Jackie Sibblies Drury, at Steppenwolf for Young Adults. She served as the dramaturg for Court’s productions of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf, and has dramaturged for Sideshow Theatre, Victory Gardens, Chicago Dramatists, and the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts. Gabrielle is an active member of the Black Theatre Association Focus Group for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and has served two terms as its graduate representative. She was featured in American Theatre Magazine’s Role Call: People to Watch. She is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University. Her ongoing dissertation project, “On the Possibility of Blackness and the Inevitability of Revolution: How Black Feeling Changed the World,” examines Blackness sensibility through the valence of critical performance theory.