Gabrielle Fallen is a trans Naarm-based theatre maker, writer, and performer.

 Most recently, her original play ‘Mature Skin’ was developed and presented by Melbourne Theatre Company as part of Cybec Electric 2024. While studying the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) at the Victorian College of the Arts, her credits while training include ‘Happy To Be Here’ (dir. Dr Sarah Austin), ‘The Infinity Hotel’ (dir. Nazaree Dickerson), ‘Peach Blossom Fan’ (dir. Joe Paradise Lui), and ‘All Boys’ (Xavier Hazard). As a theatre maker, she’s created ‘Saturn and Solitude’ and ‘How To Come Out (But Not, Like, In a Gay Way or Anything)’ for MUSE Festival, and ‘Pembroke Manor’ for Drift Arts Festival’s Playground. Gabrielle was a finalist for Canberra Youth Theatre’s 2023 Emerging Playwright Commission, interned under Yve Blake on ‘Fangirls’ (Belvoir) at the Sydney Opera House, and alongside her cohort, has been a resident artist with Polyglot Theatre and The Unconformity.

Gabrielle’s work centres trans people, and not just because she only gets funding if she does. It’s an incredibly difficult time for her community right now, and her work seeks to create social change by inviting audiences to share in the joy, pain and utter mundanity of trans lives. Gabrielle’s work employs black humour to alleviate the importance of taboo subjects, in the hope audiences feel a little less alone.

Her instagram is @gabriellefallen.

Gabrielle Fallen is a delight.