playwright | theatre maker
What’s Gab:
Gab Reisman's plays explore the ways place writes itself on our bodies- examining the connections between geography, history, and identity. Inherently queer and keenly irreverent her work looks at what it means to live on the precipice of chaos.
Besides her own work, Gab builds immersive and devised performances in non-traditional spaces, most recently with utopia-based trio Bender/Mars/Reisman, and her own incubator Brooklyn Yard.
Gab has developed work with Clubbed Thumb, Page 73, Fusebox Festival, Sundance Theatre Lab, and the Playwrights' Center among others. She's received commissions from the Humana Festival of New Plays, EST/Sloan Project, the NOLA Project, New Plays at Barnard, Clubbed Thumb, and ZACH Theatre.
Gab is a MacDowell Fellow, an Orchard Project, Ingram New Works, I-73, and New Victory Lab alum and a former NNPN Playwright in Residence. Her plays Spindle Shuttle Needle and Catch the Wall have appeared on multiple Kilroys Lists and won the Holland New Voices Award. Gab has taught playwriting and theatre making at Stony Brook, UC Riverside, the University of New Orleans, NYU, and UT Austin.
What’s next:
-Ghost Forest at Stony Brook’s Science on Stage: October 2024
-70 Secrets of Marmalade Kittens at The Station Theatre: December 2024
-Ongoing development of Jeune Terre the musical with composer Avi Amon