GAB CODY creates immersive, devised and site-specific work as well as theater meant-to-be-performed in a theater.
She created the immersive Daylighitng the Stream on Governors Island in New York City in 2019. She served as lead writer and co-creator on the immersive urban adventures DODO, (produced in tandem with the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History and Bricolage Production Company), Ascendants, STRATA and OjO produced in Pittsburgh and at the La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival and Studio A: Immersive Engagement an embodied sensitivity and diversity training event.
She has been a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University and the College of William and Mary. Her plays have been staged at the La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The August Wilson Center for African American Culture, The Pittsburgh Playhouse, Quantum Theatre, New York City’s New Dramatists and Urban Stages, Coconut Grove Playhouse, and at theaters in Seattle, Chicago, and Sydney, Australia. Over the past three years she has served as a panelist and moderator at the TCG national conference and the Dramatists Guild national conference, leading conversations on immersive and site-informed theater. She served on the Devised Committee at the Dramatists Guild, led by Doug Wright (and including Elevator Repair Service, the Debate Society and Tectonic Theatre company), which produced a new contract template and Devised Theater materials available to all companies working collaboratively. Her films have screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival, New Filmmakers at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, Johns Hopkins Film Festival, New York Horror Film Festival, Big Bear International Film Festival and 11/22 FilmFest in Vienna. Ms. Cody’s collaborations (as screenwriter) with Riley Harmon A Method for Blue Logic and Passengers: Ghost Protocol have premiered at museums and film festivals internationally. Ms. Cody is the originating organizer for “The Monologue Project” whose aim is to increase the audition-length canon of monologues for Women of the African Diaspora.
Ms. Cody earned her MFA at Point Park University and her BFA at University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She served for five years as the Pittsburgh Regional Representative for the Dramatists Guild.