Gabrielle Sinclair

Gabrielle Sinclair is an award-winning playwright whose work has been developed and performed internationally and across the country. Plays include: The Resolute: All Hands In (the Hewitt School in NYC, developed at The Wyoming Theatre Festival, Jane Chambers award finalist), Alcestis (UGA mainstage), This Little Light (theatre for the very young piece at ATHICA in Athens, GA), The Bride Project (Love Me Gender Festival, Vienna), Showing (Ingram New Works Lab), Telling the Bees: The Just Now (Winner, Georgia Theatre Conference One-Act Play Competition), and Ghost Notes (North Carolina New Play Prize). Gabrielle's plays have been developed through the Actors Studio Playwright-Directors Workshop, Annoyance Theater, as well as through residencies throughout the country. She recently graduated...

Gabrielle Sinclair is an award-winning playwright whose work has been developed and performed internationally and across the country. Plays include: The Resolute: All Hands In (the Hewitt School in NYC, developed at The Wyoming Theatre Festival, Jane Chambers award finalist), Alcestis (UGA mainstage), This Little Light (theatre for the very young piece at ATHICA in Athens, GA), The Bride Project (Love Me Gender Festival, Vienna), Showing (Ingram New Works Lab), Telling the Bees: The Just Now (Winner, Georgia Theatre Conference One-Act Play Competition), and Ghost Notes (North Carolina New Play Prize). Gabrielle's plays have been developed through the Actors Studio Playwright-Directors Workshop, Annoyance Theater, as well as through residencies throughout the country. She recently graduated with her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Georgia and publishes scholarship on theatre as Gabrielle Sinclair Compton. Associate member - Dramatists Guild. MFA Playwriting - Actors Studio Drama School, NYC.

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Scripts

Patience & Hannah

by Gabrielle Sinclair

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
drama

On the night of her wedding, Hannah tracks down her sister, Patience, who has disappeared to live in a cult.

On the night of her wedding, Hannah tracks down her sister, Patience, who has disappeared to live in a cult.

Telling the Bees

by Gabrielle Sinclair

Cast Size
7
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental,
movement/physical

An eco-drama that situates a home as an unhealthy hive and its inhabitants as their roles as bees, when estranged adult siblings gather for one night in their childhood home following the sudden and mysterious death of their mother.

An eco-drama that situates a home as an unhealthy hive and its inhabitants as their roles as bees, when estranged adult siblings gather for one night in their childhood home following the sudden and mysterious death of their mother.

The Danaids

by Gabrielle Sinclair

Cast Size
5—50
Genre
adaptation,
adventure,
fable/folktale

A reimagining of Aeschylus's partially lost tragedy, in which the chorus of the story, made of 50 sisters, all never-brides and water nymphs, literally runs away. A fractured fantasy tale, beginning with their doomed ending, and following their trickling story to make their way, together, out of hell.

A reimagining of Aeschylus's partially lost tragedy, in which the chorus of the story, made of 50 sisters, all never-brides and water nymphs, literally runs away. A fractured fantasy tale, beginning with their doomed ending, and following their trickling story to make their way, together, out of hell.

The Resolute: All Hands In

by Gabrielle Sinclair

Cast Size
13—20
Genre
adventure,
biography,
docudrama/historic,
fable/folktale,
movement/physical,
period

Large cast version of The Resolute, designed for high schools and colleges.
Three months after the end of the Civil War, a group of freshmen at one of the first elite colleges for women discover a place outside of time where anything is possible, even rebellion, even baseball. Inspired by an extraordinary astronomy professor, these daring students will pursue joy, face their fears, and transform their lives...

Large cast version of The Resolute, designed for high schools and colleges.
Three months after the end of the Civil War, a group of freshmen at one of the first elite colleges for women discover a place outside of time where anything is possible, even rebellion, even baseball. Inspired by an extraordinary astronomy professor, these daring students will pursue joy, face their fears, and transform their lives forever.
Development:
Premiered at The Hewitt School, October 2021. Directed by Colleen Britt.

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Showing

by Gabrielle Sinclair

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
drama,
fantasy

A pregnant woman's baby's gender reveal party is easy - just make it to the cake and cut it up before your family, your sense of self, your friendships, your trust that your baby is safe, and even the cake itself falls to pieces. A love letter to a baby from the future, about the terrible transformative power of food, family, hope, and science fiction.

A pregnant woman's baby's gender reveal party is easy - just make it to the cake and cut it up before your family, your sense of self, your friendships, your trust that your baby is safe, and even the cake itself falls to pieces. A love letter to a baby from the future, about the terrible transformative power of food, family, hope, and science fiction.