Gabrielle Maisels

Gabrielle Maisels is an actor, playwright, and acting coach, and the writer/performer of two acclaimed solo shows, Two Girls andBongani, (CAPFringe 2009, MITF 2009, NYIFF 2010, 2011) inspired by her family’s experiences in South Africa. Gabrielle studied Political Theory at Harvard and Columbia, acting with Carol Fox Prescott, and playwriting with Matt Hoverman, Winter Miller, and others.  New York theatre includes: solo shows in New York International Fringe Festival 2010 and 2011, Elizabeth in Clear Cold Place by Caroline Prugh, Agnes in A Bright Room Called Day, Esther in Terminating, Rocky in Men of Clay (Off-Broadway, with Matthew Arkin, Danton Stone, Steven Rattazzi), Rebecca in In the Voice of Our Mothers, Nancy in June and Nancy, NYIFF 2012. New York workshops include Pete Smalls (screenplay reading, with Peter Dinklage, Sam Rockwell); Pushkin (reading, with Daniel Sunjata, Jake Robards, dir: Erica Gould). Film includes The Great Pretenders, dir. Jeremy Cohen, Now Forager, dir. Cortlund & Halperin (Gotham Awards nominee). Member Actor’s Equity. www.gabriellemaisels.com

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