Gabriel Grilli
- Actor
A director, actor, and writer, teacher, Gabriel has worked at theatres
in the Bay Area, New York City, and around the country. He is the
Founding Artistic Director of BrickaBrack, an Oakland-based
multidisciplinary company. Other local credits include Symmetry Theatre
(The Language Archive), 6th St. Playhouse (Walt in Becoming Walt
Whitman) 42nd St. Moon (Strike Up the Band, The Student Gypsy, Girl
Crazy & Call Me Madam), Custom Made Theatre (The Old Neighborhood, The
Devil & Billy Markham, & Mr. Marmalade), PlayGround, Woodminster
Musicals, Aurora Theatre, Magic Theatre, Playwrights Foundation,
Playwrights' Center, The Media Factory, and the SF Fringe Festival. His
Berkeley Playhouse performances include Fagin in Oliver and Captain
Hook in Peter Pan, which critics hailed as "hilariously elegant" and
"visually magnetic."
Gabriel worked for over a decade with many NY theatre companies, including Manhattan Theatre Source, Here, the Brick, Flying Fig, NY Fringe, Themantics Group, the Mint, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Theatreworks USA and others. As a teacher of acting, directing, stage combat, and Viewpoints, he has headed classes and workshops at Acting Abroad (France), Berkeley Playhouse, Custom Made Theatre, Marin Shakespeare Company, New York University, The New School, The School of Visual Arts, Syracuse University, Pennsylvania State University and the Oxbridge Program at Trinity Hall (UK).
He is a member of PlayGround, Actors' Equity, and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and was a founder of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation Artists' Action Committee. Gabriel's principal training was at Penn State University (MFA Directing) and Hofstra University (BFA Acting).
Gabriel worked for over a decade with many NY theatre companies, including Manhattan Theatre Source, Here, the Brick, Flying Fig, NY Fringe, Themantics Group, the Mint, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Theatreworks USA and others. As a teacher of acting, directing, stage combat, and Viewpoints, he has headed classes and workshops at Acting Abroad (France), Berkeley Playhouse, Custom Made Theatre, Marin Shakespeare Company, New York University, The New School, The School of Visual Arts, Syracuse University, Pennsylvania State University and the Oxbridge Program at Trinity Hall (UK).
He is a member of PlayGround, Actors' Equity, and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and was a founder of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation Artists' Action Committee. Gabriel's principal training was at Penn State University (MFA Directing) and Hofstra University (BFA Acting).