Gabrielle Greenfield
Gabrielle Greenfield is a playwright, naturalist and movement artist creating location-based immersive theatre, awakening one’s affinity with Nature through the power of the puppet. Gabrielle grew up in Dallas, Texas and graduated from Booker T. Washington HSPVA in the Theatre cluster, specializing in playwriting, mime and mask work. She earned her Bachelor’s from the University of Maryland (College Park) with...
Gabrielle Greenfield is a playwright, naturalist and movement artist creating location-based immersive theatre, awakening one’s affinity with Nature through the power of the puppet. Gabrielle grew up in Dallas, Texas and graduated from Booker T. Washington HSPVA in the Theatre cluster, specializing in playwriting, mime and mask work. She earned her Bachelor’s from the University of Maryland (College Park) with a degree in English Language and Literature and Plant Science. It was there that she began tying her curiosity to the natural world and the expression of prose on stage-together in immersive experiences.
As a playwright, her plays have been produced at The Kitchen Dog Theatre (TX), The University of Houston (TX), The Paul Baker New Plays Festival (TX), The Blank Theatre (LA), The University of Maryland (MD) and The Center (SF)
As a performing artist/puppeteer she has presented at The Terra Marin School (CA), The Caulbridge School (CA) The Marin Mycological Society (CA), Isabella Freedman Retreat Center (CT), Radio Disney (TX), Sirius XM (DC), and Friends Community School (MD). She authored a children’s book about symbiotic mycorrhizal associations between mushrooms with Dr. Priscilla Chaverri at the University of Maryland.
As a naturalist, she has worked with children ages 3-15 in the realms of medicinal herbalism, foraging, survival skills, dream interpretation, farming and nature-based play at Eden Village Camp (NY), The Ladybird Johnson Center at the University of Texas (TX), TerpFarm (MD), Isabella Freedman Retreat Center (CT), Moloa’a Organica’a Farm (HI), Forested Permaculture Farm (MD), Bee Awesome Hivery (OH), Point Bonita YMCA (CA) The Terra Marin School (CA), The Caulbridge School (CA) and is transitioning to become a certified Waldorf Teacher as she currently the lead teacher at the Kauai Waldorf School.
Gabrielle currently lives in Mill Valley, California where she hunts for oyster mushrooms after the rain, teaches Preschool/5th Grade Earth Education, 5th grade Language Arts during the work week, and makes bat puppets in between.