about.
Gabriel Thom Pasculli (he/they) is a US/Turtle Island-based performance artist, teacher, and theater director. Exploring the intersections of performance and decolonial praxis through body, change and belonging, Gabriel Thom embraces interdisciplinary processes of co-creation. For eight years, Gabriel Thom was an artistic director of the Wender Collective in Chicago (formerly known as Walkabout Theater Company), with whom Gabriel Thom directed a series of outdoor public stilt spectacles as well as internationally-touring ensemble performances acclaimed by critics as “surreal,” “sublime,” “gorgeous and exhilarating.” During the same period Gabriel Thom was a founding co-director of VoxFest, an annual summer festival of innovative new works-in-progress at Dartmouth College. Recently, Gabriel Thom was the creative producer at Sandglass Theater in Putney, VT, a puppet theater dedicated to social dialogue.
Gabriel Thom has been teaching actor training, movement and voice, and co-creation for ten years; and they are currently teaching performance and directing at Union College in Schenectady, NY. Gabriel Thom taught for many years in Chicago at the University of IL in Chicago and the University of Chicago among other programs. Gabriel Thom is a certified teacher of Fides Krucker’s Emotionally Integrated Voice pedagogy, and they recently graduated from Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program with a concentration in Decolonial Arts Praxis and Performance Creation.
Other Chicago directing credits include work with Red Tape Theatre, Trap Door Theatre, Oracle Productions, Redmoon and Steppenwolf Theatre. Additional influences include study at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards in Italy, the Odin Teatret in Denmark, and Double Edge Theatre in Massachusetts.