Directing Portfolio
identity
Written & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Syracuse Stage 2001
This workshop production developed through collaboration with six actors. The play consisted of text, movement, puppetry, and cinematic devices with contemporary music. In it, we ask essential questions about existence, faith, chance, and character, guided by five New Yorkers whose lives are curiously intertwined. A cinematic work with theatricality and humor in the vein of Robert Lepage and Howard Korder.
Johanna, Diana & Shelly wave goodbye
The Company
Strange Desire
Text from Shakespeare
Adapted & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Trinity Hall, Cambridge UK 2004
This site-specific piece inspired by Shakespearean sonnets was staged in multiple locations on the grounds of Trinity College in Cambridge, UK, in 14th century rooms, courtyards, and passageways. Audience members were given a map with marked locations, and the freedom to visit each space at their leisure while performers executed scenes in cycles.
The Seer (Sammi Wyman) The Madwoman (Jess Jones)
Written & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Syracuse Stage 2001
This workshop production developed through collaboration with six actors. The play consisted of text, movement, puppetry, and cinematic devices with contemporary music. In it, we ask essential questions about existence, faith, chance, and character, guided by five New Yorkers whose lives are curiously intertwined. A cinematic work with theatricality and humor in the vein of Robert Lepage and Howard Korder.
Johanna, Diana & Shelly wave goodbye
The Company
Strange Desire
Text from Shakespeare
Adapted & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Trinity Hall, Cambridge UK 2004
This site-specific piece inspired by Shakespearean sonnets was staged in multiple locations on the grounds of Trinity College in Cambridge, UK, in 14th century rooms, courtyards, and passageways. Audience members were given a map with marked locations, and the freedom to visit each space at their leisure while performers executed scenes in cycles.
The Seer (Sammi Wyman) The Madwoman (Jess Jones)
Stalking Christopher Walken
Written & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
NY International Fringe Festival 2002
A comic dance theatre jaunt that serves up a hot slice from the subconscious mind of acclaimed actor and cultural phenomenon Christopher Walken.
Have you ever wondered what, exactly, is going on in Chris' head?
This revelatory, entertaining and disturbing ride through the esoteric landscape of his dreams blends movement, music and text to hypothesize what it looks like on the inside...
~ nytheatre.com noted “vibrant dance pieces... a masterpiece of theatrical economy,” with “a mad genius at the helm: Gabriel Grilli.”
Written & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Chateau le Mont Epinguet - Normandy, France 2008
The Company sleep walking
Jeff Familetti as Gluttony
Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Adapted & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Syracuse Stage 2001
To re-imagine this classic, I mined the play's raw essence in a production highlighting the condition of youth, the presence of the elements earth, air, water and fire, & the significance of ritual. Verona was depicted as a Middle-Eastern city of wealth and beauty, isolated from the outside world by a vast desert. The design featured regionally inspired clothing amidst a simple environment of canvas, stone, steel, water, and wood.
The Queen (Laura Ingalls) and the two houses of Verona
Romeo (Matt Benson), Tybalt (Bill Kuhrt), Mercutio (Paul James)
Capulet (Taylor Hooper) & Lady Capulet (Sarah Easterling)
carry Juliet (Nikki Coble) to her tomb
The Windows of Albert Camus
Written & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Penn State School of Theatre 1999
Inspired by Camus’ novel The Stranger, this tragicomic spectacle examines contemporary society through the lens of Camus’ philosophy of absurdism. We explored Camus' life, work, and legacy through movement, dance, song, text and puppetry in the dream theatre tradition. Windows was developed through physical and vocal improvisations, Viewpoints, mask studies, movement études, and other exercises with over thirty singers, dancers, actors and musicians.
Sisyphus (Joe Thompson) pushes his rock
A dancing couple escapes Incorporation
The Author (Brad White) and Camus (Peter Wray) in A Dream
The Lover by Harold Pinter & Love Jungle by Gabriel Grilli
Directed & Choreographed by Gabriel Grilli
The Flatiron Playhouse, New York, NY 2002
Two short plays which examine identity, role playing, and encounters with strangers.
Max (Peter Weise) with The Graces
The Duchess of Malfi
by John Webster
Adapted & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Penn State School of Theatre 1998
Duchess (1614) is John Webster’s dark, unsettling drama of moral dissolution and sexual politics -- This 90-minute version features many movement sequences and wheeled set pieces, sending observers on a visceral ride through Malfi’s chaotic state.
Antonio (Daniel Magill), Cardinal (Mark Light-Orr) & The Court
Ferdinand (Josh Machamer) storms the Duchess' bedchamber
Ferdinand (Josh Machamer) hears voices
The Crucifer of Blood
by Paul Giovanni
Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Cider Mill Playhouse 2007
Sherlock Holmes (Tom Byrne), Watson (Dustin Charles) and Irene (Corrine Grover)
Beauty & the Beast
by Timothy Mason
Directed and Choreographed by Gabriel Grilli
Texas Shakespeare Festival 2005
Beauty (Courtney Coston) & The Prince (Zach Hoogendyk)
Science Fair
by Jeanmarie Williams
Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Hudson Backstage Theatre, Los Angeles, CA 2000
Robbie Berry portrayed five different characters in this one-person show
Written & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
NY International Fringe Festival 2002
A comic dance theatre jaunt that serves up a hot slice from the subconscious mind of acclaimed actor and cultural phenomenon Christopher Walken.
Have you ever wondered what, exactly, is going on in Chris' head?
This revelatory, entertaining and disturbing ride through the esoteric landscape of his dreams blends movement, music and text to hypothesize what it looks like on the inside...
~ nytheatre.com noted “vibrant dance pieces... a masterpiece of theatrical economy,” with “a mad genius at the helm: Gabriel Grilli.”
Written & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Chateau le Mont Epinguet - Normandy, France 2008
The Company sleep walking
Jeff Familetti as Gluttony
Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Adapted & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Syracuse Stage 2001
To re-imagine this classic, I mined the play's raw essence in a production highlighting the condition of youth, the presence of the elements earth, air, water and fire, & the significance of ritual. Verona was depicted as a Middle-Eastern city of wealth and beauty, isolated from the outside world by a vast desert. The design featured regionally inspired clothing amidst a simple environment of canvas, stone, steel, water, and wood.
The Queen (Laura Ingalls) and the two houses of Verona
Romeo (Matt Benson), Tybalt (Bill Kuhrt), Mercutio (Paul James)
Capulet (Taylor Hooper) & Lady Capulet (Sarah Easterling)
carry Juliet (Nikki Coble) to her tomb
The Windows of Albert Camus
Written & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Penn State School of Theatre 1999
Inspired by Camus’ novel The Stranger, this tragicomic spectacle examines contemporary society through the lens of Camus’ philosophy of absurdism. We explored Camus' life, work, and legacy through movement, dance, song, text and puppetry in the dream theatre tradition. Windows was developed through physical and vocal improvisations, Viewpoints, mask studies, movement études, and other exercises with over thirty singers, dancers, actors and musicians.
Sisyphus (Joe Thompson) pushes his rock
A dancing couple escapes Incorporation
The Author (Brad White) and Camus (Peter Wray) in A Dream
The Lover by Harold Pinter & Love Jungle by Gabriel Grilli
Directed & Choreographed by Gabriel Grilli
The Flatiron Playhouse, New York, NY 2002
Two short plays which examine identity, role playing, and encounters with strangers.
Max (Peter Weise) with The Graces
The Duchess of Malfi
by John Webster
Adapted & Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Penn State School of Theatre 1998
Duchess (1614) is John Webster’s dark, unsettling drama of moral dissolution and sexual politics -- This 90-minute version features many movement sequences and wheeled set pieces, sending observers on a visceral ride through Malfi’s chaotic state.
Antonio (Daniel Magill), Cardinal (Mark Light-Orr) & The Court
Ferdinand (Josh Machamer) storms the Duchess' bedchamber
Ferdinand (Josh Machamer) hears voices
The Crucifer of Blood
by Paul Giovanni
Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Cider Mill Playhouse 2007
Sherlock Holmes (Tom Byrne), Watson (Dustin Charles) and Irene (Corrine Grover)
Beauty & the Beast
by Timothy Mason
Directed and Choreographed by Gabriel Grilli
Texas Shakespeare Festival 2005
Beauty (Courtney Coston) & The Prince (Zach Hoogendyk)
Science Fair
by Jeanmarie Williams
Directed by Gabriel Grilli
Hudson Backstage Theatre, Los Angeles, CA 2000
Robbie Berry portrayed five different characters in this one-person show
