Gabrielle Greenfield

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.

Plays

  • Rock Candy
    College students Lila, Mark and Katherine recall the events that led up Lila’s sexual assault on Halloween night in the fall of 2006. Coming from three different points of view, told at three different times, there is a whole array of perspectives and discrepancies within the stories told between the victim, the perpetrator and the best friend and confidante. Engaging and creatively told, this one-act packs a dramatic punch.
  • Laburnum
    Laburnum has been referred to The Lovely Bones meets Alice in Wonderland. A young girl, Aster, in a suburban neighborhood is enticed by a cat to journey beyond a lamppost that brings her to the most beautiful garden she has ever seen. Aster finds that the flowers seem to have some effect on her mental state, and upon meeting the resident gardener, she comes to find that each of the flowers represent a different...
    Laburnum has been referred to The Lovely Bones meets Alice in Wonderland. A young girl, Aster, in a suburban neighborhood is enticed by a cat to journey beyond a lamppost that brings her to the most beautiful garden she has ever seen. Aster finds that the flowers seem to have some effect on her mental state, and upon meeting the resident gardener, she comes to find that each of the flowers represent a different feeling that one can experience on Earth. Original, out-of-the-box, and mythologically intriguing, Laburnum deals with heavy topics in a majestic and fanatical world that may live within our own.
  • (esc)odus
    "(esc)odus" is an immersive stage play experience that investigates the concepts of technology, progression, plant medicine, and the deep primal call to return to Nature. Loosely based on the biblical story of Moses and the Jew's exodus from slavery in Egypt, "(esc)odus" draws parallels between the slavery and freedom within technological advancement and the deep internal battle in...
    "(esc)odus" is an immersive stage play experience that investigates the concepts of technology, progression, plant medicine, and the deep primal call to return to Nature. Loosely based on the biblical story of Moses and the Jew's exodus from slavery in Egypt, "(esc)odus" draws parallels between the slavery and freedom within technological advancement and the deep internal battle in oneself to desire to return to the wise natural ways, all within the space of a San Francisco Psychedelic Integration Circle.
  • A Sunset on The Beach
    Two dogs discuss inbreeding
  • Armalennon
    Deisy, a girl from from Columbia has to return home from school in the US due to a mysterious ailment of outbursts. With the help of a mushroom diagnosis ceremony led by her best friend Sabina, the great granddaughter of a shaman, Deisy throws up the unrested spirit of John Lennon. John explains he didn't have enough time to finish his complete his mission for peace while he was here on Earth and Deisy is...
    Deisy, a girl from from Columbia has to return home from school in the US due to a mysterious ailment of outbursts. With the help of a mushroom diagnosis ceremony led by her best friend Sabina, the great granddaughter of a shaman, Deisy throws up the unrested spirit of John Lennon. John explains he didn't have enough time to finish his complete his mission for peace while he was here on Earth and Deisy is the one fit for the job. John says the key to uniting people for peace returning to Mother Earth. John sends Deisy, now Lennonita, on a quest through the be-mushroomed jungle to find the Fool On The Hill who has the answer to how to return to Mother Earth.
  • rinse, wash, repeat
    Suze, a witty witchy college student shows up at her drug dealers, James, late at night. Suze is drunk and wants to hook up with James but they have no discussion in what “hooking up” means. Suze may talk game, but does that guarantee that she will sleep with him? And how will he treat her if she doesn't?