Gabrielle St. Evensen is the stage name for L. Gabrielle Penabaz, an interdisciplinary artist, living in New York City, traveling often. Performer, Writer, Show-Host, Filmmaker, and bilingual Voiceover talent.
Gabrielle is the host and a producer of Radical Vaudeville, a mindbending variety show in NYC, and she’s just launched her (Electric, Eclectic) Eccentric Ear Radio show on RadioFreeBrooklyn.com. She is currently the Artist-In-Residence at P3Studio gallery in the Cosmopolitan Hotel of Las Vegas, in partnership with Art Production Fund with her one-on-one performance art installation, MARRY YOUR SELF. It’s the most ambitious version of The one-on-one live-art piece 'Til Death Do You Part. Marry Yourself!, featureing the installation of a non-denominational chapel complete with rings, costumes, vows and refreshing mini-exorcisms. She is the encouraging priestess who marries participants to themselves - notably Chashama-residency, New OrleansProspect One, Figment, Visions of Excess/SPILL UK, and private gatherings. The incarnation at P3Studio is particularly blessed by Alexander G. Lyle's wood sculpture temple, SPIRAL CHAPEL.
Her critically acclaimed theatre show, Sex Crimes Cabaret, questions sex laws and the human reaction with her films and original songs accompanied by a live cast of musicians and dancers.
She originally moved from Miami to attend NYU, graduating magna cum laude in comparative literature, while studying with private vocal coaches and recording music with various bands. Several TV shows have used songs from her world-touring electronic-rock outfit, St. Eve. The multi-media act emerged from her various jobs at the legendary nightclub, Mother (home of Jackie 60) . Meanwhile, her underground parties on both US coasts became infamous for unusual themes, conversation-inducing performances, lovingly-made absinthe and draconian door policies. She has been spotlighted in Time-Out NY, The Village Voice, and in a MOTH podcast.
Gabrielle was featured in the documentaries "Sex Death and Eyeliner", "Vampyres" and "We Live In Public". She joined Bec Stupak's renowned VJ stars, Honeygun Labs, mixing live video for several Bacardi tours. Gabrielle was the director of photography for the video portion of Mike Smith and Mike Kelley's "A Voyage of Growth and Discovery" (collaborative video, sculpture, and sound installation at MOMA PS1 NYC and West of Rome Gallery LA). She has frequently collaborated with Nicole Blackman, most notably as line-producer and filmmaker for the site-specific, 14 station live-art piece "Beloved", which premiered at The Fierce Festival (UK) and has been performed several times since. Gabrielle became a story producer for a show that aired on VH1, and continues to produce/direct/edit. She is also a sought-after voiceover talent/engineer (English and Spanish). The collaboration with Sarina Basta produced the audio installation, "The Seven Gates (Gabrielle's Laughter)" for The Bruce High Quality Foundation's "BRUCENNIAL" and purchased by the MOCA in Tucson, AZ.
Aside from SCC and Marry Yourself, she is currently working on various projects for private clients and is available for hire.
Photos by P. Petty-Schroeppel