Performance
Now On:
Cast/Represent Gaby!
Gaby is currently seeking representation and submitting to every audition she can. Cast her in a show or call her up!
Groups of Ten or More People
With Zach Barr, Gaby wrote, directed, and starred in this adaptation of Love’s Labour’s Lost set at the beginning of the COVID-19 shut-down in Chicago.
"Our court shall be a little academe, Still and contemplative in living art." -William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (Act I, Scene 1) Groups of Ten or More People Presented by Littlebrain Theatre Based on Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
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Coffee Date
With Spence Warren, Erin Armstrong, Jackson Jackson-Schultz, and Kevin Bixby, Gaby co-wrote and starred in Coffee Date, a small horror film written and shot over a few days in October 2020.
Directed, Shot, and Edited by Spence Warren
"Barbara Allen" [Traditional] Arranged by Patrick Burke
Acting
Gaby Labotka is a Latinx, Chicago-based actor and performer (EMC) with a special love for Shakespeare, devised, and movement-based theatre. Here you will find selected credits, a link to her current resume, training history, pulled quotes about her work from reviews, and galleries of her on and backstage.
Selected Credits
Peter Pan. Neverland . Prop Thtr. Director: Olivia Lilley
Self/Mina Loy. A Story Told in Seven Fights. The Neo-Futurists.
U/s Jake. We’re Gonna Be Okay. American Theater Company. Director: Will Davis
U/s Molly, Captain Scott. Peter and the Starcatcher. Metropolis Theatre Company. Director: Lili-Anne Brown
Benvolio. Romeo and Juliet. Teatro Vista. Director: Lavina Jadhwani
Gloucester/John Bates/ Hartfleur. Henry V. Babes with Blades. Director: Hayley Rice
U/s Rienne, Kathryn. The Hammer Trinity. The House Theatre of Chicago. Director: Nathan Allen
training and special skills
“The performers, to a person, are all entertaining and grounded... Labotka fuels Peter with an infectious energy that can easily turn to something darker when needed.”
“Watching you was like watching a young Judi Dench....”
training
Acting Studio Chicago: On Camera 3 with Janelle Snow[About]
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art: Acting Shakespeare 2015 [About]
Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training: Summer Session 2014 [About]
Neutral, Commedia, and Balinese Masks, Red-Nose Clown
Illinois State University: BA Theatre - Acting and Directing with Exceptional Merit in the Arts
Alexander Technique, Laban Effort-Actions, Viewpoints
Stage Combat
Gaby is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. [SAFD Member Profile]
Recommended Pass in Quarterstaff by the SAFD, 2019 - Instructor: Chuck Coyl
Recommended Pass in Single Sword by the SAFD 2019 - Instructor: Don Preston
Recommended Pass in Unarmed by the SAFD, 2017 – Instructor: John MacFarland
Recommended Pass in Small Sword by the SAFD, 2017 – Instructor: John MacFarland
Recommended Pass in Rapier and Dagger by the SAFD, 2017 – Instructor: Chuck Coyl
Recommended Pass in Knife by the SAFD, 2017 – Instructor: Chuck Coyl
Recommended Pass in Sword and Shield by the SAFD, 2017 – Instructor Mike Speck
Recommended Pass in Broadsword by the SAFD, 2017 – Instructor: Chuck Coyl
Certification in Theatrical Firearms by the SAFD, 2016 – Instructor: Scot Mann
Special skills
Dance/Theatrical:
Advanced Ballet, Jazz, Modern, and Tap. Red-Nose Clown, Mask, Puppetry, Beginning Aerial Arts.
Music:
Mezzo-Soprano, Guitar (Beginning-Intermediate).
Voice:
Spanish (Conversational. 50% fluent)
Various Dialects (RP British, Northern British, Cockney, French, Scottish, Irish).
Athletics/Miscellaneous:
Intermediate Yoga, Volleyball, Tennis, Archery. Driver’s License, the R2-D2 Scream.
In Action…
Performance photos 2015-present
Unrehearsed Shakespeare in action
