Department of Theater and Dance
Gabriel Thom Pasculli is a performance artist, teacher, and theater director. For eight years, Gabriel Thom was an artistic director of Walkabout Theater in Chicago (now called Wender Collective), 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. 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. Gabriel Thom has been teaching actor training, movement and voice, and co-creation for ten years, most notably with the University of IL at Chicago and the University of Chicago.
