Teaching Bio
Gabriel Levey is a teacher, actor and theatre maker currently teaching at NYU, Yale, Christopher Bayes' The Pandemonium Studio in Brooklyn, and independently in Western Massachusetts. Gabe has taught classes and/or workshops at The Berkshire Theatre Group, Galim Dance, Smith College, Amherst College, Shakespeare & Co., The Professional Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, and The Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter High School in Massachusetts. With a focus on just, inclusive, diverse, and anti-racist actor training, as well as the creation and production of new works of theatrical comedy, Gabe founded Completely Ridiculous Productions in the fall of 2019. After producing three live shows at the Northampton Center for the Arts, the pandemic hit and everything shut down. It was at this point that Gabe created The Completely Ridiculous Conservatory, a no longer active 6 week online acting program that, within its first year, welcomed over 100 students from all over the world. A maker of theatrical comedy, Gabe's original work includes, Dwellicle 109 (IRT); Brainsongs, or the play about the dinosaur farm (Yale Cabaret); And now we do LINDBERGH’S FLIGHT by Bertolt Brecht (Yale Cabaret); The Most Beautiful Thing in the World (Yale Cabaret/Boston University/Cloud City); How to Help the Self Needs Help with Carol A. Jantsen (The Peoples Improv Theater); and most recently A Super Serious and Not at All Funny Reading of Stories I Wrote After Brain Surgery, which kicked off Completely Ridiculous Productions first season of new work at the Northampton Center for the Arts. Gabe received a BFA in Acting from Boston University, and an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama. |