LOriginally from La Paz, B, C. Sur, Mexico, Gabriela is an artist who divides her time between the TV / Film, theater, dance, commercial and education industries with an extensive international career. She holds a BA in Performing Arts from Saint Mary's College of California, she is a recipient of the Mujeres Destacadas award given by El Diario, and co-founder of R.Evolución Latina, a non-profit organization focused on human empowerment through the performing arts.
She dedicated 12 years of her life as the dance captain and ensemble member of CHICAGO The Musical on Broadway, US tours, and the Vienna and Mexico City companies where she played the role of Velma Kelly. Other musical theater credits include: Half Time the musical, Roman Holiday, Carousel, West Side Story, Joseph and the Amazing ... Dreamcoat, My Fair Lady and play REAL by Rodrigo Nogueira.
Within the film world her most recent credit is the film In The Heights directed by John M. Chu. She also participated in Enchanted and Whatever Lola Wants. On television she has participated in "Law and Order SVU,""New Amsterdam," HBO's "Succession" and Netflix's "Jessica Jones". She has a 20-year career as an announcer for television and radio spots for the national Hispanic market in the United States, and has recorded more than 100 audiobook titles.
Gabriela was associate director/choreographer alongside director Luis Salgado for The Broadway League's VIVA BROADWAY 2021 concert in Times Square. She staged the choreography for CHICAGO Düsseldorf, was Movement Associate for Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theater and associate choreographer for Public Works' Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theater. In 2019 she participated as a guest dramaturg and choreographer for the production NAVIDAD by Calpulli Mexican Dance Company, a project that she keeps very close to her heart in homage to her Mexican roots. Her love, respect and knowledge of the Fosse® style took her to Peru where she choreographed Sweet Charity and CHICAGO for the production company Preludio. She has also choreographed for the Joffrey Ballet School's NYC Jazz and Contemporary Program performances, BC/EFA benefit galas, and the R.Evolución Latina Choreographers Festival.
Her dance training began under the Royal Academy of Dancing syllabus, followed by studies at the San Francisco Ballet School and the Pacific Northwest Ballet School, where she performed with the company in ballets such as Serenade, Swan Lake, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Nutcracker, Coppelia, Symphony in C and others. As a soloist she danced with Tanzforum der Oper Koeln in Germany where she originated several roles.
Her theater dance and ballet classes have reached schools around the world, including Germany, Austria, Mexico, Peru, Sweden, China, to name a few, and in New York at Ellison Ballet, PACE University, Ithaca College, CAP 21 and Joffrey Ballet school where she also acted as co-coordinator of the Joffrey Ensemble. She has also served as a teaching artist for The Verdon-Fosse Legacy. Her love for community service has kept her engaged with R.Evolución Latina’s Beyond Workshop Series (an adult educational performing arts program) as well as Public Works– a program of The Public Theater, where she designed a movement class for Bronxville community center’s senior community.
Gabriela considers herself a citizen of the world. She is a passionate artist and teacher who inspires, guides and instills her values and work ethic in her students and her projects.
She dedicated 12 years of her life as the dance captain and ensemble member of CHICAGO The Musical on Broadway, US tours, and the Vienna and Mexico City companies where she played the role of Velma Kelly. Other musical theater credits include: Half Time the musical, Roman Holiday, Carousel, West Side Story, Joseph and the Amazing ... Dreamcoat, My Fair Lady and play REAL by Rodrigo Nogueira.
Within the film world her most recent credit is the film In The Heights directed by John M. Chu. She also participated in Enchanted and Whatever Lola Wants. On television she has participated in "Law and Order SVU,""New Amsterdam," HBO's "Succession" and Netflix's "Jessica Jones". She has a 20-year career as an announcer for television and radio spots for the national Hispanic market in the United States, and has recorded more than 100 audiobook titles.
Gabriela was associate director/choreographer alongside director Luis Salgado for The Broadway League's VIVA BROADWAY 2021 concert in Times Square. She staged the choreography for CHICAGO Düsseldorf, was Movement Associate for Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theater and associate choreographer for Public Works' Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theater. In 2019 she participated as a guest dramaturg and choreographer for the production NAVIDAD by Calpulli Mexican Dance Company, a project that she keeps very close to her heart in homage to her Mexican roots. Her love, respect and knowledge of the Fosse® style took her to Peru where she choreographed Sweet Charity and CHICAGO for the production company Preludio. She has also choreographed for the Joffrey Ballet School's NYC Jazz and Contemporary Program performances, BC/EFA benefit galas, and the R.Evolución Latina Choreographers Festival.
Her dance training began under the Royal Academy of Dancing syllabus, followed by studies at the San Francisco Ballet School and the Pacific Northwest Ballet School, where she performed with the company in ballets such as Serenade, Swan Lake, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Nutcracker, Coppelia, Symphony in C and others. As a soloist she danced with Tanzforum der Oper Koeln in Germany where she originated several roles.
Her theater dance and ballet classes have reached schools around the world, including Germany, Austria, Mexico, Peru, Sweden, China, to name a few, and in New York at Ellison Ballet, PACE University, Ithaca College, CAP 21 and Joffrey Ballet school where she also acted as co-coordinator of the Joffrey Ensemble. She has also served as a teaching artist for The Verdon-Fosse Legacy. Her love for community service has kept her engaged with R.Evolución Latina’s Beyond Workshop Series (an adult educational performing arts program) as well as Public Works– a program of The Public Theater, where she designed a movement class for Bronxville community center’s senior community.
Gabriela considers herself a citizen of the world. She is a passionate artist and teacher who inspires, guides and instills her values and work ethic in her students and her projects.
