For over 25 years, Gabrielle Lansner has had a successful international career as a choreographer, dancer, director and actor.  Traveling between the worlds of dance and theater, she began her training at the age of 10 at Juilliard with Pearl Lang.  She completed additional training with the SUNY Purchase Dance Department and the NYU Experimental Theater Wing.

Her professional career began in the ‘70’s when she became an associate member and performer with the Wooster Group.  She toured in Spalding Gray’s autobiographical trilogy, “Three Places in Rhode Island,” in Amsterdam, as well as NYC engagements.  Lansner’s credits also include performing in Meredith Monk’s “Quarry” at BAM (1978) and work with numerous dance companies including Charles Moulton, Wendy Perron and Susan Rethorst.  In 1980, Ms. Lansner formed Gabrielle Lansner & Dancers.  The company performed to critical acclaim from 1980-1987 at P.S. 122, St. Mark’s Church, the Ethnic Folk Art Center, the Cunningham Studio, and the DIA Art Foundation.

In 1987, Ms. Lansner began a concentrated period of work in the theater as an actress.  Working in classical and experimental theatrical genres, her extensive credits include work with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox MA, The Milwaukee Repertory Company, Target Margin, the Tiny Mythic Theater Company, Ping Chong, among others.

With a newfound interest in fusing her dance and theater backgrounds she formed gabrielle lansner & company in 1997.  She has created eight original full-length works for the company that have performed to critical acclaim: “Lansner has a gift for creating vivid dramatic landscapes out of an almost seamless merging of text and movement.” - The New York Times

Other creative projects include choreographing the musical play “Shangri-La” for Queens Theater in the Park, Paul Scott Goodman’s musical “Him and Her” for the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival, and Nancy Magarill’s musical “The Boy with the Glasses” at New York Theater Workshop.

Ms. Lansner has taught movement classes for actors at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and at the Mint Theater Company.  She has been a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Laboratory since 1998.