What are the odds that two women from drastically different walks of life can find common ground over a shared loss?

play by Gabrielle Wagner

When conservative, white Southern-belle Natalie, arrives in New York City to collect the belongings of her dead twin sister, she meets Kendra, and learns that her sister’s roommate is not only black, but is more than just a roommate. She must confront her sister’s choices, as well as her own fears and prejudices. Panic attacks, pot brownies and pocket aces help them deal with grief, guilt and gauging one another… and Natalie’s abusive ex-fiancé.  Kendra challenges Natalie’s ideas, beliefs and opinions to help her see past her small-town upbringing. And Natalie challenges Kendra’s hardened stubbornness, helping her to see that accepting help from others does not equal weakness. All-in with one card to come, will they stay at odds or make the right read on each other?

full length play

90 minutes

2w, 1 m

Workshop Production (Live Virtual), The Theatre Project, August 20-25, 2021

First Reads Festival, PlayGround Experiment NYC, August-September 2020

Primary Stages, March thru May 2020

Semi-finalist 2021 Dreamcatcher Repertory Playwright Series

For more INFORMATION about POT ODDS
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Sometimes you have to get a little bit lost in order to find yourself.

Book by Gabrielle Wagner
Music by Jan Roper
Lyrics by Julie Weiner

“City of Light” is the story of the practical, organized to a fault, list-making Molly. Exactly a year after her father died on her birthday and one month before her wedding, Molly embarks on the trip to Paris he always wanted to take her on; but now it’s to scatter his ashes from the Eiffel Tower. Nothing goes as she planned, and a new relationship challenges her in ways she’s never experienced, bringing her to major realizations about herself and the seemingly perfect life she left behind. With charming French-inspired music and lyrics,“City of Light” is a musical of self-discovery, friendship, romance and listening to your heart; proving that sometimes it helps to get a little bit lost in order to truly find yourself.

full length one-act musical

95 minutes

5w, 4m minimum

Release on The Micro-Musical Show (and iTunes and Spotify), March 2019

Concert version at Feinstein’s 54 Below in NYC, September 27, 2018

SHE-NYC Summer Theatre Festival, winner of Best Score and Best Ensemble, July 2017

Stephen Schwartz’s ASCAP’s Musical Theatre Workshop, February 2015

Developmental production (NMI’s 4×10 Company), September 2014

PlayFest Santa Barbara, concert production, January 2014

Concert reading at the Colony Theatre in Burbank, CA, December 2013

For more INFORMATION about CITY OF LIGHT
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Call: (805) 637-1399

An orphaned “mortal,” raised in Faerie, learns of her true heritage and faces dark forces as she fights to restore peace in the realm.

Book by Gabrielle Wagner
Music by David Orris
Lyrics by David Orris and Gabrielle Wagner

Set in Ireland, Aisling, an orphan in the Mortal worlds is brought to Faerie and is raised there by her adopted father.  She grows up thinking she’s a displaced mortal human in Faerie, who doesn’t know where she came from or where she belongs truly. In this realm, the females have been stripped of their child bearing ability and their ability to grow wings, the one trait that makes them undeniably Faerie.   As she comes of age to take her vows in her Faerie tribe, she begins to find out her true heritage through a series of tests and lessons that lead up to these vows, and learns that not only was her mother one of the most powerful Fae in the Realm, but also that she was banished and left for dead in Mortal by Lochlan, the unofficial Faerie King.  Eventually, Aisling is reunited with her mother, Saoirse, whom she believed to be dead and with her help, restores Mother Earth, the Goddess Danu’s wishes to have High Priestesses benevolently rule instead of the power-hungry self-serving Lochlan.  They go up against him together but ultimately realize that because of their bloodline, only one of them can survive/exist in Faerie and Aisling makes the ultimate sacrifice and restores her mother to her rightful place and chooses to leave Faerie for Mortal. In their bittersweet parting, Aisling and Saoirse agree to meet briefly once per lunar month at every full moon.

full length two-act musical

2 hr 15 minutes

7w, 4m Minimum

Currently in Development

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Can a break from WiFi bring a family back together?

Book by Gabrielle Wagner
Music by Bryan Blaskie
Lyrics by Lawrie Chiaro

“iWish” is a short musical (or play) that takes a look at a how a modern family deals with their estrangement from each other in the digital age. Becca, a precocious 12 year old has ‘had it’ with her parents addiction to electronic devices and today she finally does something about it.

short, one-act musical

15 minutes

2w, 2m

Production at Studio C in Hollywood, CA, August, 2014

Production at UC Irvine, Digital Natives Festival, March 2013

NMI performances at Colony Theatre, Burbank, CA, June 2012

For more INFORMATION about iWish
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Call: (323) 687-9188

How much net worth is worth it?

Play by Gabrielle Wagner

“Net Worth” is a short play that puts a modern twist on the Aesop Fable, A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush. Harry is juggling too many “deals.”  Anna grows tired of being juggled.

a short play

13 minutes

1w, 2m

Think Fast One-Act Festival, Burgdorff Center for Performing Arts, Maplewood, NJ, Feb. 2020

Reading at Playground Experiment, NYC, March 2019

For more INFORMATION about Bum Deal
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Buy a Groupon to contact the dead?  What could possibly go wrong?

play by Gabrielle Wagner

The “The Groupon” is a comedy about a man, looking for answers, who buys a Groupon for a medium to help him contact his late wife.  What could possibly go wrong?

a short play

10 minutes

1w, 1 m

“Virtual” reading at Primary Stages, May 2020

For more INFORMATION about The Groupon
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Can Ellie reconcile her past to allow her to move forward with her future and enjoy the present?

Play by Gabrielle Wagner

In “Life is What Happens,” a young woman on the brink of starting a new life and family attempts to keep up a tradition she had with her late father, inadvertently causing her to face her fears and make peace with his death so she can move forward with life.

a short play

15 minutes

1w, 2m

Reading at Playground Experiment, NYC, June 2019

For more INFORMATION about Life is What Happens…
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Call: (323) 687-9188