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Gab Cody

Gab.CodyAEA, SAG, AFTRA

917-370-2082
ecrasez@gmail.com

www.gabcody.com
www.greatergoodpa.com


RESUME




Highlights


Founder & Director of the improv group Off the Top of Our Heads, winner of the Big Apple Improv Festival as “Best Improv Group in New York”

Teaching

  • Improv
  • Intro to Acting
  • Junior Movement (Mask work)

Acting

  • Working with Anya Martin's new company Hiawatha and originating a role in her new play, Camino
  • Casino Liberty, Kelly-Strayhorn (developed from a class project)
  • La Ronde, The REP (Thesis role)
  • Stand-up comedy appearances
  • Guest-comic contributor to WDVE’s The Jim and Randy Show
  • Various commercials

Playwriting

  • Co-wrote & acted in Crush the Infamous Thing: The Adventures of the Hollywood Four at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and NYC’s Urban Stages
  • PRUSSIA: 1866 – Written as a class project.  Staged reading in New York in June: including Lucas Near-Verbrugghe from Bloody Bloody, Andrew Jackson and Tina Benko from NYTW’s Little Foxes.
  • Short plays written and produced for the SWAN festival and Bricolage

Writer/director/producer of film & video

  • Short documentary film Accordion Pool Party, part of San Francisco’s Disposable Film Fest
  • 10 Public Service Announcements for the state of Pennsylvania on end of life issues (wrote a grant for this and used Point Park students and faculty for actors)
  • Mombies, included in Greetings from Pittsburgh: Neighborhood Narratives, awarded entry in the Cleveland International Film Festival, the NYC Horror Film Fest, the San Francisco Independent Film Festival, and the 11/22 Festival in Vienna, Austria

Theater

New York

   
*Armless Jenny N.Y. Int'l. Fringe Festival
Gab Cody Rides Again Gab Cody (also writer) Ars Nova 
Crush the Infamous Thing! Meryl (also co-writer) Urban Stages 
**Off the Top of Our Heads  Improviser Gotham City Improv 
Puckerswucking  Rhoda (also co-writer)  PSNBC @ HERE 
Sight Unseen Patricia  Third Eye Rep. 
Baby with the Bathwater Helen ATA 

Regional

   

Crush the Infamous Thing!

Meryl (also co-writer)

Coconut Grove Playhouse 

Crush the Infamous Thing!

Meryl (also co-writer) 

Williamstown Theatre Festival 

Death of a Salesman

Understudy 

National Tour 

Merchant of Venice

Nerissa

Quantum Theatre

Much Ado About Nothing

Hero

NC Shakespeare Festival

Measure for Measure

Juliet

NC Shakespeare Festival

The Glass Menagerie

Laura

CC Theatre (Charlotte, NC)

The Bakkhai

Dancer (Greek Chorus)

NC School of the Arts

La Ronde

The Prostitute

Pittsburgh Playhouse

The BUS

Writer and actor

Bricolage

Midnight Radio

Ginger Hamilton

Bricolage

Film, Television and Radio

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Mommy Actress

Kevin Smith Feature

Mombies

Mombie (writer/producer)

Short Film/WQED/Festivals

The Margaret Mitchell Story

Alice

NBC Movie

The Box

Liz

Short Film

The Jim and Randy Show

Guest Comic

WDVE 102.5

*Commercial list available
upon request

   

Training and Education

Point Park University M.F.A. in Acting, Degree expected in 2011
North Carolina School of the Arts B.F.A. (winner of Sarah Graham Kenan scholarship)
Gotham City Improv Comedy Writing/Improv
Burn Manhattan Theatrical Improvisation
Chicago City Limits Improvisation
UCB Improvisation

Special Skills

French, Horseback riding, Juggling, Dance, Swing Dance, Mime, Yoga, Improv, Stand-Up

*Armless winner of N.Y. International Fringe Festival Best Overall Production Award
**Off the Top of Our Heads winner "Best Improv Group in NYC" at the 6th Big Apple Improv Festival