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Honored you clicked “About.”

Gaby FeBland is a multidisciplinary artist working in puppetry, illustration, playwriting, and performance. She is a proud co-founder of Foreshadow, an experimental shadow puppetry company. Her original plays and puppetry have been performed off-Broadway and at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Dixon Place, Green-Wood Cemetery, Coney Island U.S.A., Jalopy Theatre, the Owl Music Parlor, and the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.

As an actor, she is represented by Big Mouth Talent. For five years, she was the accordionist for Friends of the Bog. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY.

Gaby attended Northwestern University, where she majored in Theatre Arts and Spanish. She holds a Graphic Design Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Her illustration and design work is featured on trains, newspapers, magazines, websites, event posters, albums, band shirts, greeting cards, buttons, and wedding venues across the world.

Illustration Clients include

  • 826 Boston

  • 826CHI/The Wicker Park Secret Agent Supply Co.

  • American Brain Foundation

  • American Library Association

  • Ashland Breast Pumps

  • Bend the Arc

  • EO Chicago

  • Reading in Motion

  • South Side Weekly

  • Spare Jar Consulting

Awards and Honors

2023 National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Center

2022 Peg Santvoord Foundation Grant, Foreshadow

2020 Peter Lisagor Illustration Award Finalist

2018 “Juana la Loca” Accepted into the Last Frontier Theatre Conference

2017 The New Colony Writers’ Room Workshop Production, “Juana la Loca”

2016 “April Fools’ Week” Published in Spider Magazine

2015 “The Lilliput Troupe” Produced Off-Broadway

2014 “The Lilliput Troupe” Produced at Northwestern University

Want to collaborate?

Shoot an email detailing freelance & collaboration opportunities.

gabyfebland@gmail.com

You can also find Gaby on Instagram, Dribble, and Behance!