Theatre
DRAMATURG | R&D - TALENT LAB RESIDENCY (Les Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg)
A new theatre project about police violence and the collapse of empires across 2000 years of history. Developed in collaboration with theatremaker Liam Rees and supported by the Theatres de la Ville (Luxembourg) as part of the TalentLab Residency 2025.
SHEEP/DOG
x TALENT LAB
LUXEMBOURG
Feb-June 2025
LESSONS ON REVOLUTION is a documentary theatre piece interrogating how social change happens, how we talk about it, and whether theatre itself can be a form of activism. Using the 1968 student protests at the London School of Economics as a starting point, the show employs autobiography, archival research, and audience participation to ask what revolutionary movements from the past can teach us to face the political challenges of today.
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"Compelling and galvanising" - James Graham
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JERMYN STREET THEATRE / 28 April - 3 May 2025
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UNIVERSITY OF YORK / 2 April 2025
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LANCASTER ARTS at Lancaster University / 14 - 15 February 2025
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SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH FRINGE / 1 - 26 August 2024
Sold Out Show Edinburgh Fringe 2024 (+ 2 extra shows)
"One of my favourites of this year's fringe" - Natasha Tripney for Café Europa​​
"Completely exceptional... it reinvents the notion of lecture and the notion of performance"
- The Theatre Times​
"One of the most talked about shows from this year's Edinburgh festivals" - The Conversation
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"A heartfelt paean to the politics of possibility"
★★★★★ - THE SCOTSMAN
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"Intelligent, questioning documentary theatre... a thoughtful reflection of radicalism"
★★★★ - THE STAGE
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"Unique and intellectually potent, this is the best thing I've seen at the Fringe"
★★★★★ - The Morning Star
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"An incredibly moving and potent experience"
★★★★★ - Binge Fringe
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"A powerful, electric shot of theatre"
★★★★★ - Corr Blimey
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"A theatre experience like no other... an essential fit into your fringe schedule"
★★★★ - Theatre Weekly
"A stirring experimental theatre experience"
★★★★ - The Recs
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★★★★ - The Edinburgh Reporter​​
★★★★ - Three Weeks
★★★★ - The Real Chrisparkle
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THE ENCAMPMENT at the occupied London School of Economics / 4 June 2024
We had the privilege to perform Lessons On Revolution for the students who occupied LSE in May and June 2024 in solidarity with Palestinian liberation. We were lucky enough to share our play with them, highlighting the parallels between the 1967-69 occupations of LSE and today.
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SOHO THEATRE / 13 February 2024
Soho Rising Festival / Sold Out
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HOPE THEATRE / 26 September - 7 October 2023
Funded by Arts Council England
"a thought provoking production delivered with style"
★★★★★ - A Young(ish) Perspective
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"one of the biggest highlights of my year in theatre"
★★★★ - Theatre and Tonic
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"a triumph of writing and performance"
★★★★ - Broadway Baby
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"touching, heartfelt, and full of hope"
★★★★ - The Upcoming
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"a truly memorable and compelling show"
★★★★ - The Peg Review
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★★★★ - London Theatre Reviews​
★★★★ - Everything Theatre
LESSONS ON REVOLUTION
UNDONE THEATRE
x CARMEN COLLECTIVE
Writer & Performer
R&D of a new verbatim play by Danielle James and her mother Nuala, staging conversations that the pair had together about transness, sex, love, what makes them happy, why Danielle is so obsessed with control, why Nuala loves golf, and how the pair of them move forward in their relationship. Alongside the play development, the project includes a workshop with parents of trans children.​​
A DIFFICULT BUT
NECESSARY
CONVERSATION
WITH MY MOTHER
x DANIELLE JAMES
Feb-March 2025
WRITER & PERFORMER | CAMDEN PEOPLE'S THEATRE
Meet real-life partners Joey and Gabs. This is a show about the show they never made. The true story of how a 1904 opera caused the breakdown of their relationship.​ Connecting Milan to Nagasaki, Hong Kong to London, SO THAT YOU MAY GO BEYOND THE SEA is an irreverent look at the stories that shape us, whether we like it or not.
Funded by Arts Council England
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SHORTLIST - The Pleasance's Charlie Hartill Award 2025
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"A tender and funny play that leaves our expectations at the door"
★★★★ - A Young(ish) Perspective​
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"Light-hearted, engaging drama"
★★★★ - Broadway Baby​
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"Provocative and thoughtful"
★★★★ - Theatre Weekly​​
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"It pushe[s] the limits of documentary theatre"
- The Greatest Pause
SO THAT YOU MAY GO
BEYOND THE SEA
(The Butterfly Project)
UNDONE THEATRE
Spring 2024
DRAMATURG | CARMEN COLLECTIVE
'Something Is Wrong' is a physical and textual exploration of how London's inequalities are embodied in its citizens. As a dramaturg, Gabriele provided the team with research and starting points for a devising process that combined text with movement and choreography.
Funded by Arts Council England
SOMETHING IS WRONG
CARMEN COLLECTIVE
August 2022
VAULT FESTIVAL x ROSEMARY BRANCH / April 2022 (1 week)
Selected Recordings of Us is a non-linear, interactive, and queer two-hander exploring how LGBTQ+ individuals remember their personal stories when LGBTQ+ history has been erased. Based on the show's exploration of queer memory, Gabriele created the Remembering Project, a collection of fragments from our production and from a Q&A with our audiences.
Funded by Arts Council England​
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"Sensitively and complexly written" - Nic Connaughton, Head of Theatre @The Pleasance​
"Joyous and bittersweet" - Alexander Knott, former Artistic Director of the Old Red Lion Theatre
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THE SPACE / September 2021 (1 week)
Funded by Arts Council England
"Ambitious", "moving", "bold and fascinating" – There Ought To Be Clowns
"those involved have plenty to offer us in the future"​ – Everything Theatre
Top 15% of 2020 open submissions at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh​​
SELECTED RECORDINGS
OF US
UNDONE THEATRE
Writer & Director
WRITER | BRIDGE THEATRE READING ROOM PROGRAMME
As part of the Reading Room programme, Gabriele presented a reading of their play Ghostwriter at the Bridge Theatre to an invited industry audience. Ghostwriter is a non-linear, metatheatrical dark comedy that explores intergenerational struggles in the arts and the social responsibility of theatre makers, interrogating whose voices we get to hear onstage.
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Longlist - Masterclass 'Pitch Your Play' competition 2023
GHOSTWRITER
BRIDGE THEATRE
February 2022
DIRECTOR & DRAMATURG | VAULT x OMNIBUS THEATRE
Following the cancellation of VAULT Festival, Mengqi He's provocative exploration of race, gender and migration has been transferred to Omnibus Theatre. After offering dramaturgical support and workshopping the text during an R&D phase, Gabriele directed a WIP of Happy Together.
Funded by Arts Council England
HAPPY TOGETHER
VAULT FESTIVAL
February 2022
DIRECTOR & WRITER | BYRE THEATRE
Following a mentally unstable hero who tries to piece together a narrative that is both his own story and an impersonal archetype, this unsettling take on Greek tragedy turns the original text into a modern-day tale about identity, memory, power, and politics. Featuring original music, sound, dance, and videography. The project also featured a Q&A on adapting Greek tragedy with the cast and crew and the support of the Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama (CPUGRD).
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"a spiralised, dystopian rendering of the play, [...] like a Black Mirror episode in the flesh”
“Uboldi has constructed a story that interweaves seamlessly through and upon itself, so full of careful details and structured levels” – Owl Eyes Magazine​
OEDIPUS REX
MERMAIDS THEATRE
February 2020
DIRECTOR & WRITER | EDINBURGH FRINGE
Greece, 2400 years ago. When Pentheus, the King of Thebes, refuses to recognise Dionysus in his divinity, the god goes to the city to punish him. Or, this should be the plot, if the theatre company weren't arguing over how to stage the show on the night of the premiere.
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"A triumphant attempt to turn the 2400-year-old classic drama by Euripides into a funny, politically relevant piece of theatre that appeals to, and engages with, a modern audience"
​"capture[s] the audience with both light-hearted jokes and serious intensity" – St.Art Magazine
BACCHAE
MERMAIDS THEATRE
August 2018 (2 weeks)