Gab Cody, Filmmaker/Playwright

Gab Cody is a seriously funny playwright and filmmaker. She has a masterful command of genre; she parodies and pays homage to heightened styles throughout her work. Films include shorts and documentaries that have screened at Greetings From Pittsburgh: Neighborhood Narratives, the Cleveland International Film Festival, NYC Horror Film Fest, SF Independent Film Festival, San Francisco’s Disposable Film Fest, the 11/22 International Comedy Short Film Festival in Vienna, Austria, and on WQED-TV. Her feature film Progression is in post-production. Her plays have been staged at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Quantum Theatre and NYC’s Urban Stages, as well as nonameplayers’ SWAN Day festival, the Bricolage Production Company’s IN THE RAW reading series and their 24-hour play festival B.U.S. Her comedies Prussia: 1866 and The 2nd American Revolution received staged readings at the WorkShop Theatre in New York. She was lead writer on Bricolage’s STRATA. Quantum Theater’s production of her play Fat Beckett was named a top ten production of 2011 by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; it will be published this year by Playscripts, Inc. Gab’s collaboration with Lori Roper, The Sisters Grey, will be produced in March 2013 by the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. Gab attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a Tennessee Williams scholar in playwriting. MFA Point Park University; BFA North Carolina School of the Arts. Email Address:  ecrasez@gmail.com