GABRIELLE RANDLE-BENT is a mother, director, dramaturg, and scholar. Her directorial highlights include The Island and The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice (co-directed with Charles Newell) at Court Theatre; 1919 (Steppenwolf); and The Year of Magical Thinking (Remy Bumppo). In 2019, Gabrielle was Court Theatre’s inaugural Research Fellow. She is a co-founder of the Civic Actor Studio, a leadership program of the University of Chicago’s Office of Civic Engagement. She has a BA in Drama from Stanford University, an MA in Performance as Public Practice from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University, and a Senior Lecturer in the Theater and Performance Studies program at the University of Chicago.
Bio as of 9/2022