BOOK & LYRICS
NYU Trained Musical Theatre Writer
GMTWP Cycle 29
Writing Highlights:
WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION of new horror-parody musical, Camp Crystal Lake. World Premiere, Summer of 2022 at Wolfbane Productions. WINNER of the Regional Broadway World Awards of Centra Virginia for “Best New Musical” of 2022!
UNIVERSITY READING of Madam President. Produced through Christopher Newport University’s New Musicals Lab, June 2021. In collaboration with lyricist Jessie Field & composer Lucy O’Brien.
FINALIST for the Sound Bites 7.0 10-minute Musical Festival at Merkin Hall with her musical Rise in collaboration with composer Ernie Bird. World Premiere & Off-Broadway Premiere, May 2022 at Merkin Hall, NYC.
SCRIPT ASSISTANT under writer Todd Kreidler (B’way: Fences, How I Learned to Drive, Gem of the Ocean.) for pre-national tour staged reading of The Heroin Diaries, January 2021. Produced by Troika Entertainment.
PUBLISHED her first art song, Gonna Build You a House with composer Scott Joiner through North Star Music, LLC.
WRITERS LAB Member of the Theatre Now New York National Musical Writers Group since 2021.
ORIGINAL SONG In collaboration with Katie Hazdovac, their original song “Tomorrow” was featured In Wolfbane Productions’ all new-adaptation of Macbeth, in October 2022.
20 MINUTE MUSICAL Bedlam, in collaboration with Nate Riebli, premiere at NYU Tisch Spring 2019.
TWO THESIS MUSICALS (2) 90-minute Thesis Musicals, written through the GMTWP. Advisors Rachel Sheinkin (Tony Award-winning Bookwriter) & Mindi Dickstein (Broadway Lyricist)
MEMBER Dramatists Guild Member since 2019.
Winner of Best New Musical of Central VA 2022 with “Camp Crystal Lake”
CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE, an 80’s horror-parody musical
Winner of the Regional Broadway World Awards of Centra Virginia for “Best New Musical” of 2022!
WRITTEN by GABRIELLE MIRABELLA
ORIGINAL DIRECTION by Dustin Williams & PRODUCED by WOLFBANE PRODUCTIONS
Alice, a clumsy teenage scream-queen, fights to stay alive as she battles all your favorite 80’s horror movie monsters in one super haunted summer camp.
2 Acts. 11 Characters.
CLICK HERE for audience reactions!
RISE
BOOK & LYRIC by GABRIELLE MIRABELLA
MUSIC ERNIE by BIRD
RISE is a musical adaptation of Jack & Jill starring two hungry little girls stuck at the bottom of society, and their highly demanding mistress. Set to a post-soviet, contemporary musical-theatre score, RISE combines themes such as violence and poverty with lightning-fast physical comedy.
10 Minutes. 3 Characters.
CLICK ON THE SOUNDCLOUD LINK BELOW TO HEAR FULL MUSICAL.
MADAM PRESIDENT, an optimistic new musical
BOOK by GABRIELLE MIRABELLA, LYRICS by JESSIE FIELD, MUSIC by LUCY O’BRIEN, DIRECTION by ILANA RANSOM TOEPLITZ
Amy Liang-Collier, author of the best-selling feminist coffee-table book Madam President, loses faith in herself and her country following Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 Presidential election. Her intense sorrow, mixed with a bit of bad weed, leads her into her very own book. Here, she meets the women presidential candidates she so admires. Can Amy find her way back home? And, if she does, will she want to return?
2 Acts. 8 Featured Characters with Ensemble.
TOMORROW, performed by Sabina Petra
Written by Gabrielle Mirabella & Katie Hazdovac
This piece was created for Wolfbane Production's MACBETH, an original adaptation by Dustin Williams. October 2022.
“I Will See It All” Performed by Vanessa Sierra
Words by Gabrielle Mirabella
Music by Gabrielle Mirabella & Enzo Veiga
BEDLAM
BOOK & LYRICS by GABRIELLE MIRABELLA
MUSIC by NATE RIEBLI
Set in the late 14th century, a prison warden of the Bedlam Asylum uses his inmates for financial gain in a show for spectators.
20 Minutes. 3 Characters.
Click below to hear “Maddy’s Song” Recorded January 2021.
Sung by Gillian Hassert
With Lauren Wright on Violin & JT Curtis on Guitar
MR. HENRY TRIES TO TAKE A NAP, a Kid’s Musical Short
BOOK & LYRICS by GABRIELLE MIRABELLA
MUSIC by ENZO VEIGA
In this 10-minute Musical Short, we follow the journey of a tuxedo cat named Mr. Henry trying to navigate a big change in his routine.