Gábor Gellai

Gábor Gellai

About

I am a storyteller. I create character-based narratives in the forms of performance, theater, and visual curation. I am interested in how singular perspectives can embody, reflect on, and question our social conditions that are informed by historical currents. I reinvent both fictional and real characters, archetypes by contemporizing them to reveal unsaid truths about our society, identity, and myself.

Photo credits to Johannes Richtberg Nohl

Photo credits to Johannes Richtberg Nohl

I was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary where I performed in several dance productions and the regional production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In 2019, I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater with a minor in Economics at New York University Abu Dhabi. During my college years, I explored different forms of performance making. I was trained in the Grotowski method at the studio of Experimental Theater Wing at NYU Tisch of Arts in New York City. I devised an independent movement piece during my study away in Berlin with fellow international collaborators. For my thesis work, I created a 30-minute performance based on research using secondary historical resources.

Currently based in Berlin, Germany, I am interested in how I can manifest character-based work at the intersection of live performance and other multimedia such as photography, video stream, and olfactory installation.