THIRST by Ronán Noone, directed by Shanara Gabrielle With Eugene O’Neill’s classic Long Day’s Journey into Night as a backdrop, Thirst is set in the downstairs world of the Tyrone family kitchen in August 1912. Two Irish immigrant servant girls and the chauffeur search for love, success, and a sense of belonging in their new world in this lyrical […]

Directed by Shanara Gabrielle, Ada is presented as part of SigWorks: Monday Night New Play Readings. After an “incident” at The Company, dedicated employee Ada must meet with her superior, Joan, for behavioral programming sessions. However, a shocking act of violence throws the institution’s perfectly ordered system into chaos and forces Joan to question not only her […]

Shanara Gabrielle is the Artistic Producer of Working In DC, a celebration of the working class, the dignity of labor, and the lives of workers in America. Find out more at www.workingindc.org

July 2021: the cell will workshop a new version of Jean-Paul Sartre‘s The Respectful Prostitute adapted by actor and playwright Corey Allen and helmed by Shanara Gabrielle. More details to come. BroadwayWorld.com Article

Works of rarely-heard Austrian and German women composers unleashed in a stirring multimedia street concertOn May 5-6, join us at the corner of 14th and R Streets, NW for Kept Under Glass: Unheard Women’s Voices, a multimedia pop-up performance of songs about love and longing for connection by under-recognized Austrian and German women composers. This program […]

Excited to be directing a workshop production of SHEAR PANDEMIC for the BAAD!ASS Women Festival! Cast includes: Renea Brown Nadia Guevara Bobbie Lowe Tro Shaw James Whalen Shear Pandemic: Four short plays set in the Lickety-Split Hair Salon that has just opened after the pandemic lockdown.Written by Debbie Finkelstein, Robert McKenzie,  Alfonso Ramirez and Charles […]