AEA, SAG, AFTRA
917-370-2082
ecrasez@gmail.com
www.gabcody.com
www.greatergoodpa.com
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
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New York |
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| *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 |
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Regional |
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Crush the Infamous Thing! |
Meryl (also co-writer) |
Coconut Grove Playhouse |
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Crush the Infamous Thing! |
Meryl (also co-writer) |
Williamstown Theatre Festival |
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Death of a Salesman |
Understudy |
National Tour |
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Merchant of Venice |
Nerissa |
Quantum Theatre |
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Much Ado About Nothing |
Hero |
NC Shakespeare Festival |
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Measure for Measure |
Juliet |
NC Shakespeare Festival |
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The Glass Menagerie |
Laura |
CC Theatre (Charlotte, NC) |
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The Bakkhai |
Dancer (Greek Chorus) |
NC School of the Arts |
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La Ronde |
The Prostitute |
Pittsburgh Playhouse |
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The BUS |
Writer and actor |
Bricolage |
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Midnight Radio |
Ginger Hamilton |
Bricolage |
Film, Television and Radio
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno |
Mommy Actress |
Kevin Smith Feature |
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Mombies |
Mombie (writer/producer) |
Short Film/WQED/Festivals |
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The Margaret Mitchell Story |
Alice |
NBC Movie |
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The Box |
Liz |
Short Film |
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The Jim and Randy Show |
Guest Comic |
WDVE 102.5 |
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*Commercial list available |
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