Gabriel Jason Dean
IDEO Skills Portfolio
“As a writer, I seek to be an architect of illumination, a collaborative maker of transformative, human experiences that gnaw at your bones for life. My work is unified in its examination of privilege, class, and race; the questioning of top-down economic structures; and a commitment to represent the fluidity of gender and sexuality.”
EXILED FROM MAIN STREET
Cover story about immigration issues for same-sex couples in the United States in 2002. Published in Creative Loafing, Sept. 11, 2002.
HEARTLAND
A play about Dr. Harold Banks, a retired professor of Comparative Literature and Afghan Studies, who is waiting for his adopted daughter to return from teaching in Afghanistan, her native country. When Nazrullah, an Afghan refugee, suddenly arrives on Dr. Banks’ Nebraska doorstep armed only with his daughter’s copies of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Old Man and the Sea – the two men become unlikely friends. The story of a father, his determined daughter, and a journey towards mercy.
(video password = vortex)
OUR NEW TOWN
An immersive musical about the aftermath of the deadliest shooting on a college campus in US history in which surviving cast members of Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN put together an unauthorized show as a way to reclaim their theatre space and heal their broken community.
(watch from 38:55 - 1:18:20)
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