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Assistant Director and Assistant Fight Director, Revenge Song

Gaby Labotka is a Chicago-based, multi-disciplinary theatre artist who works as an actor, director, intimacy director, fight director, and choreographer across the country. She is a fierce advocate for respect, empathy, representation, inclusion, and safety in the theatre, and they are dedicated to making art that reflects that. OSF: Peter and the Starcatcher (Assistant Director), Indecent (Associate Intimacy Director). Broadway: Paradise Square (Intimacy Director). Regional (selected): La Ruta (Steppenwolf, Fight Director); [Trans]formation (The Living Canvas, Director/Deviser/Choreographer); The First Deep Breath (Victory Gardens, Fight & Intimacy Director); Kinky Boots (Paramount, Intimacy Director); New Stages: Layalina and Night Watch (Goodman, Intimacy & Fight Director); WHITE (Definition Theatre, Intimacy & Fight Director); Tillikum (Sideshow Theatre, Assistant Director); A Story Told in Seven Fights (The Neo-Futurists, Fight Director); Romeo and Juliet + The Family Crest (Jacaranda Collective, Prince and Fight Director); and Hamlet (Repertory Theatre St. Louis, Assistant Fight Director). Training: Intimacy Directors & Coordinators, Society of American Fight Directors, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), Pig Iron Advanced Performer Training, Illinois State University (BA, Acting and Directing with Exceptional Merit in the Arts). Representation: 3Arts Talent Agency. www.gabylabotka.com