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GABRIELE SCHAFER

SAG-AFTRA, AEA
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height: 5’6"
weight: 135 
hair/eyes: brown

917-202-6060

gaby@gabrieleschafer.com

Skype: gabrieleschafer

Resume (pdf)

German/English v-o demo (mp3)

Reel: YouTube 

click links for production photos (left column) / reviews (middle column)

Regional / Foreign
UND JETZT/AND NOW Angelika (lead)

Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany
Actors Studio (NYC)

S/HE Mother (lead)
Kitchen Theatre Company (Ithaca)
Garajistanbul (Turkey)
MARATHON Ensemble
Theaterhaus Stuttgart (Germany)
OUTSIDE INN Kathleen (lead)

59E59 (NYC)
Theater Rampe (Germany)

SAY UNCLE (world premiere) Ms. Box Office (lead)
(critics' pick) Ivy Substation (L.A.)
& Wellington (NZ)
Off / Independent
WOMAN FROM THE PAST (staged reading) Romy Vogtlaender (lead)
Public Theater
(GTA / LAByrinth Theater coproduction)
JIG SAW (Part of Dawn Powell Festival)
 
Claire (lead)
78th Street Theatre
(Sightlines-New Georges-78th St. Theatre Lab co-production)
HAMLET Gertrude/Ghost

(2 productions:) Brick Theater
& Stella Adler Studios

TRUNK AND NET 
Mrs. Bolt (lead)
Dixon Place
& Little Theatre at Tonic
WHAT SHE KNEW 
One-Woman Play
Manhattan Theatre Source
SOME HISTORIC/SOME HYSTERIC Icon (lead)
Clemente Soto Vélez (New Stage Theatre)
DESPOILED SHORE MEDEAMATERIAL 
   LANDSCAPE WITH ARGONAUTS
Medea
International Culture Lab
Film    
LITTLE SEAHORSE Lead (Alzheimer victim)
NYU (shot 4/13)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT Lead (devious wife)
Project Greenlight Submission
by top ten finalist
FILM SCHOOL (Leah Meyerhof's Multiple Neurosis) Lead (disabled mother)
IFC
ON GUARD Lead (department head)
Also Like Life Productions
FISHING FOR TRAUSTER Lead (lawyer/mom)
NYU
THE DRY CLEANER Lead (neurotic reporter)
NYU
RISE 'N SHINE (Wasserman Award Nominee) Lead (nurse/love interest)
NYU
EMPTY (Wasserman Award Winner) Supp (German lang./WW2)
NYU
THE HOLE Lead (demented prisoner)
SUNY Purchase
THE LAST STAND Lead (docudrama)
Picture Pearl Productions
THE COMMUTER (feature) plus two shorts Lead (love interest)
Columbia
by Wayne Beach, author of Murder at 1600
Radio / Voiceover
AMERICA'S NEWSSTAND OF THE AIR Regular Broadcaster
In-Touch Network (national radio)
Voiceovers: Numerous learn-German cd's for Random House, misc. others
Education / Training
Yale School of Drama – MFA (Acting)  Auditioning for Film & TV – School for Film & TV
U of IL at Chicago – BA (Criminal Justice, Theater)  On-Camera / Commercial – Scott Wojcik, Barry Shapiro, Jagger Kaye, Brette Goldstein

SITI – Suzuki and Viewpoints, Composition w/Anne Bogart

Alexander (private) – Elizabeth Buonomo
  Butoh – Yoshito Ohno, Atsushi Takenouchi, Yukio Waguri, Akira Kasai, Diego Pinon, Shinichi Momo Koga, Yuko Kaseki, SU-EN, Joan Laage, Naoko Maeshiba, Minako Seki, Frank van de Ven
Related
Commercials: Conflicts Available Upon Request

Fluent, accent-free German (translator) • working knowledge of French and Spanish 

Yoga (headstand, crow) • athletic (tennis, hiking, jogging...) • drive stick/own car • casino poker–shuffle chips one-handed • knit • EU passport

Co-Artistic Director, International Culture Lab • Co-founder, Thieves Theatre • founding member, Rat Conference • Producer, CAVE New York Butoh Festival

Member, League of Professional Theatre Women