GABRIELE SCHAFER SAG - AEA
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height: 5’6"
weight: 135 
hair/eyes: brown

917-202-6060

gaby@ratconference.com

Resume (pdf)

Bio (pdf)

German/English v-o demo (mp3)

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Off / Independent
WOMAN FROM THE PAST (staged reading) Romy Vogtlaender (lead)
Pub lic Theater
(GTA / LAByrinth Theater coproduction)
OUTSIDE INN** Ensemble

'08 - 59E59
'07 - Theater Rampe Stuttgart, Germany

HAMLET (first quarto) Gertrude/Ghost

'07 - Brick Theater (part of Pretentious Festival)
'06 - Stella Adler Studios (New World Theatre)

TRUNK AND NET 
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
Mrs. Bolt (lead)
Ensemble
Dixon Place
& Little Theatre at Tonic
JIG SAW (Part of Dawn Powell Festival)
 
Claire (lead)
78th Street Theatre
(Sightlines-New Georges-78th St. Theatre Lab co-production)
SOME HISTORIC/SOME HYSTERIC Icon (lead)
Clemente Soto Vélez (New Stage Theatre)
DESPOILED SHORE MEDEAMATERIAL 
   LANDSCAPE WITH ARGONAUTS ** 
Medea
Thieves Theatre)

TRASH, THE CITY AND DEATH ** 
    (R.W. Fassbinder) world premiere

Ensemble
NoHo Playhouse
& ABC No Rio
THE HUMAN VOICE 
One-Woman Play
Washington Square Church
Regional / Foreign
UND JETZT/AND NOW Angelika (lead)

Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany
(+ BRIC and Actors Studio, NYC)

RICHARD II Lady
Yale Repertory Theatre
MAJOR BARBARA Jenny Hill
Yale Repertory Theatre
MARATHON (Ricardo Monti) German premiere Ensemble
Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Germany
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS (Jeffrey Jones) world premiere Ensemble
Annex Theatre, Seattle
SAY UNCLE (world premiere) Ms. Box Office (lead)
Theatre Double, Philadelphia
& Critics' Pick at L.A. and New Zealand Fringes
THE WHITE WHORE AND THE BIT PLAYER  Whore
Theatre Centre, Toronto
THE SICKNESS OF YOUTH ** Marie (lead)
Circle Theatre, Chicago
TALLEY’S FOLLY Sally
The Troupe (Colorado)
Film    
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 (radio), national
Voiceovers: Numerous learn-German cd's for Random House, Cooper Union, 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 – Weist-Barron, SAG Conservatory

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 (native) • working knowledge of French and Spanish •   ** plays translated by G.S. 

Yoga • swimming • jogging • horseback riding (Western) • ice/roller skating • driver’s license (stick; own car) • bowling • play casino poker/shuffle chips one-handed • have EU passport • wear contacts

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