Gabriela Furtado Coutinho is a writer, actor, cultural strategist, and proud graduate of Northwestern University (Theatre/English Creative Writing BA). In addition to now guest lecturing at Northwestern University, she serves as digital editor of TCG’s American Theatre magazine. Grateful for previous work with the Emmy's/Television Academy, The Kennedy Center, and various Chicago collectives, she holds experience in developing both new work and tangible care practices.

 

Projects include Goodman Theatre's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (understudy actor); Blood Wedding (lead actor); The Bloody Bricks and Blows of American Dream High (playwright); Much Ado About Nothing: A Miami Party to Joy, featured in the Latinx Shakespeares archive (director); and Lookingglass's Circus Quixote (dramaturg). AT bylines include creative nonfiction piece "How to Survive a Dictatorship, the Theatre Artist's Way," personal cover story "Tomorrow's Tamoras and Titanias," and poem "in your hands, american theatres" (the editor's letter for AT's Immigrant Imaginations issue).

 

She loves to reimagine classics, embody power roles, take lyrical creative risks, empower youth, and dream up kinder futurisms with friends whose language is laughter. She brings warm Brazilian sensibilities to her work, creating across three native languages.

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Please feel free to contact her at gabriela.furtado.coutinho.us@gmail.com. For American Theatre / Theatre Communications Group-related correspondence, please contact gcoutinho@tcg.org. As an actor, Gabriela Furtado Coutinho is represented by Talent X Alexander (lsmith@talentxalexander.com).

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She looks forward to being in community with you!