...was most recently special visiting faculty in the John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University.
She creates immersive, devised and site-specific work as well as theater meant-to-be-performed in a theater. She serves 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, Daylighting the Stream an ecological urban adventure produced with Works on Water/Underwater NY on Governor’s Island, NY.
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.
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.
Ms. Cody also produces, directs, and writes for television and independent film.
Gab Cody
“Thus we were absorbed, answering questions dutifully, each of us interviewed one-by-one by Fred whose script was so artfully written, I imagined raising my hands to the sky, thankful that a clever playwright— Gab Cody— had written something funny and crafted and poetic.”
Cody’s work has drawn critical acclaim — for STRATA especially — and raves from collaborators. “We think that she’s really just incredible at what she does,” says Bricolage co-artistic director Tami Dixon, praising Cody’s combination of intelligence and comedic sensibility. Quantum artistic director Karla Boos says, simply, “I’m awed by her brain.”
Bill O'Driscoll February 4, 2015
“There’s so much going on with Inside Passage that it can challenge an audi-ence, but it’s well worth the undertak-ing. Comedy, reality and bears — really, what more could anyone ask for in a play?”
Pittsburgh City Paper