Gabriela is a theater and film writer, director, researcher, and a third-year PhD student in interdisciplinary theatre studies at UW–Madison. In her creative and scholarly work, Gabriela has explored topics of gender, memory, and traditional performance. Her latest theater play, “The Therapist,” an exploration of the effects of structural and gendered violence on women in post-war Peru, won the 2017 Sala de Parto Playwriting Award and the 2020 Luces Award for Best Peruvian Playwright. Gabriela is currently researching the Andean drama and performance from a gendered and decolonial perspective.