Productions
Strata
Full-length immersive experience
Lead Writer/Co-Creator
Bricolage Production Company, Pittsburgh, PA
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Gab Cody served as Lead Writer/Co-Creator for the large-scale immersive theatre project STRATA, seen here on the cover of American Theatre Magazine (Jul/Aug 2013). STRATA challenged audiences by creating a simulacrum in which participants were unable to tell truth from fiction, or drama from real life. Created with Bricolage Production Company​​
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Inside Passage
Stage Play with film
Playwright and Film Writer/Director
Stage Director: Sam Turich
Cinematography: Rob Long
World Premiere at Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh, 2018
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Based on playwright Gab Cody’s true experiences, Inside Passage meshes Gab’s patchy memories of her early childhood in Alaska spent with her parents, step-siblings, and Tlingit foster-siblings with family lore and her real-life quest for reunification 35 years later. An ensemble of six performers play a multitude of characters, re-enacting (and pre-enacting) Gab’s return to Alaska in search of siblings who may not wish to be found. Innovatively combining live performance and documentary film footage shot both in Pittsburgh and on-location in Alaska, Inside Passage is intimate, heartfelt, and funny.
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DoDo
Full-length immersive experience
Lead Writer/Co-Creator
Bricolage Production Company with the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History, Pittsburgh, 2017
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The exploration was a collaboration between Bricolage Production Company and Carnegie Nexus, the Carnegie Museums initiative that taps the diverse assets of the museums to present insightful programming on big ideas that impact everyone.
The 90-minute, after-museum-hours production of DODO took small groups of participants on an immersive theatrical adventure to places known and unknown throughout the historic Oakland museums. Even longtime museumgoers discovered spaces they never knew existed.
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OjO
Full-length immersive experience
Lead Writer/Co-Creator
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, 2014
The Without Walls Festival at The LaJolla Playhouse, 2015​​
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Bricolage Production Company, nationally recognized for unconventional works invites audiences into the world of the blind in OjO: The Next Generation of Travel. OjO is a perspective-altering immersive adventure that allows participants to experience a heightening of their senses by removing their sight.
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The Ascendants
Short form immersive experience
Lead Writer/Co-Creator
Bricolage Production Company, Pittsburgh, PA, 2017
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(Short immersive experience)
"...the narrative unfolds through an exceptionally progressive sound design, which in turn acts as the most overt method of immersion. Simply having one of the most fascinating audio designs I’ve ever encountered was by far worth the two hour drive. The soundscape by District 5 (Pickett, Evans, Gotwald) provided the core thread of the narrative, a brief and arcing reflection on mortality which oscillates beautifully between the particular and universal. However, it was the suggestive lights, subtle tactile effects, and perfectly timed rhythm of the performers that completed the submersion into the dream-like world."
-workshop audience member
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Daylighting the Stream
Full-length immersive experience
Writer/Co-Director
Workshop production with Works_On_Water/UnderwaterNY program in Nolan Park, Governor’s Island, NYC, 2019
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Daylighting the Stream is an immersive, hypnagogic exploration of the subconscious mind buoyed by scientific and documentary material. We draw parallels between bodies of water and our bodies made-of-water and the interplay between the conscious, subconscious and dreaming minds.
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“Daylighting” is the term for an infrastructure project that re-exposes waterways that have been covered for urban development, such as Seoul's daylighting project: Cheonggyecheon, and the daylighting of the Sawmill River in downtown Yonkers, NY. In Pittsburgh, city of rivers, a daylighting project is planned for the Panther Hollow waterway. We also have a "Fourth River" --an aquifer, water trapped between layers of earth. We're intrigued by water being trapped or hidden, and then being rediscovered, and literally brought to light.
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The Alchemists Lab
Stage Play
Writer/Director/Lead Deviser
Point Park University Playhouse, Pittsburgh, PA 2013
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Under the tutelage of playwright, filmmaker and storyteller, Gab Cody, twenty-four Point Park students have created a work never before seen anywhere. Ever. This amalgamation of wild characters, intricate storylines, improvisation and stand-up humor is loosely based on Ben Jonson's comedy, The Alchemist, first performed in 1610, and twisted into a more contemporary satire. Cheerleading, step routines, improvised songs, physical comedy.
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PRUSSIA: 1866
Stage Play
Writer/Actor
Point Park University Playhouse, Pittsburgh, PA 2015
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​As we all know, when you think of comedy, you immediately think of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The REP, Point Park University's professional theatre company, rings in 2015 with the world premiere of Prussia: 1866, examines Nietzsche and his proto-feminist friends. When confronted with a difficult life decision so many have asked, "What would Nietzsche do?" Prussia: 1866 asks this question and finds the answer is a farce. While some of the details of Nietzsche's life may not exactly jive with the details of the play, we do know he was alive, 22 and living in Prussia in 1866, and was, we imagine, a passionate and conniving young man at the time.
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FAT BECKETT
Stage Play
Writer/Actor
Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA 2011
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In this female homage to Waiting For Godot, two women find themselves trapped in an existential everywhere. Instead of an endless wait for an absent figure, however, Sophie and Kiki embark on an eternal search for their little lost goat, Biquette. The pair is fated to travel always together -- gorging on profiteroles, discussing the merits of a festival of vomiting donkeys, and arguing over whether it is worse to be condemned to stay in one place or to travel your entire life. Utilizing repetition, shadow puppets, slapstick, and mistranslation, Fat Beckett is a clever interrogation of the absurdities of human existence.
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SHORT PLAYS
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Misoneism
10 minute play
Sci-Fi Comedy
In the near future, a robotics corporation introduces their newest anthropomorphic model to the press and public. But these artificial intelligences are not what they seem. Chaos, and hilarity, ensue.
Hellfersartin
10 minute play
Horror Comedy
Two friends who happen to be Black stop for the night at a terrifying country inn. But is their terror all in their heads? Or do the cracker mom and pop who run the place mean them real harm? And what are scooters?
The Ruins of Desire
30 minute play
Comedy
The Bed (and Bike) and Breakfast high in the Rockies charges you next to nothing to stay the night… as long as you respect the eco-Nazi innkeeper and her draconian rules (e.g., you may only use one sheet of toilet paper on each trip to the bathroom). The couple who are trying to save their marriage get caught up with the man who the innkeeper has somehow entrapped into being her manservant. Can they help him escape? Or do the mountain lions have other ideas?
Passion at the Pensione
10 minute play
Comedy
When a young American couple arrives at an Italian Pensione at dawn, they get more than they bargained for when the barely clad mom and pop owners drag their guests into fiery, passionate Italiano confrontations.
The Colonizers
10 minute play for video/Zoom
Sci-Fi Comedy
When the human race is forced to flee Earth on colonizing hibernation ships, the only man left awake is slowly driven mad by his quarantine. This COVID allegory, written for Zoom during the pandemic, features years-long beards, improvised bidets, and a first contact episode with a sexy alien.
FILM WORK:
Progression
Full-length Comedy
Writer/Co-Director
Media Kit: http://progressionmovie.com/assets/mediakit.pdf
Website: http://progressionmovie.com/
Mombies
Short Comedy
Writer/Producer
Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb6O3a4v8Bc
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The Accordion Pool Party
Documentary Short
Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYCR_3znggA
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Method for Blue Logic
Passengers
Co-Writer/Directed by Riley Harmon
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Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
Writer/Producer
Selection of Live-action interstitials