AngelPirate. Encouraging creative commotions.

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AngelPirate. Encouraging creative commotions. 〰️

Gabrielle Corsaro, Artistic Director. Photo by Arthur Lafrentz Bacon.

AngelPirate Productions is a performance arts initiative founded in 2005 by Gabrielle Corsaro. Please click HERE for a brief bio and click HERE for our mission.

We are a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.

Gabrielle was a co-founder and an artistic director of The Bridge PHL with the mission to foster healing connections between diverse communities by encouraging openness and dialogue on racial prejudice, privilege, inclusion, intersectionality and bias, through powerful acts of theatre.

AngelPirate is currently working on new projects slated for production in late 2024 and 2025. Please continue to check back here and join our mailing list to stay up to date!

COMING THIS FALL!

Stay tuned for more details!!

Gabrielle recently had the unexpected chance to share some thoughts about the newly refreshed rainbow crosswalks in the Philadelphia Gayborhood with CBS News Philadelphia reporter Howard Monroe. Watch the clip!

CBS News Philadelphia

On June 5, 2023 Gabrielle was honored to join Here 4 the Kids and thousands of folx who gathered at the Colorado State House in Denver to demand an end to gun violence and to being held hostage by the Second Amendment.

Find out more about their work at Here4TheKids.com .

Engage with us on Instagram @angelpirateproductions:

In the fall of 2021, AngelPirate & TS Hawkins proudly announced the inaugural recipients of our new collaboration, the Magnify Microgrant!

visit the magnify microgrant page for more info!

In September 2021 Gabrielle Corsaro and TS Hawkins appeared on “James Jackson’s Coffee Talk” to chat about the Magnify Microgrant (and lots of other timely topics). Catch that on YouTube HERE.

Love & Light (& Other Lies)
Written by Gabrielle Corsaro
Directed & Performed by Gabrielle Corsaro & Maribeth Rubenstein
A compassionate calling in of some of the violent, flowery deceptions white women employ in our quest to be "allies".

Love & Light (& Other Lies) premiered at The 5th Annual Bridge PHL Theatre Festival on October 23, 2020.

It is available for viewing HERE or HERE.

Early in 2021 Gabrielle had the opportunity to chat with Tina Brock on her weekly show “Into the Absurd”. Take a look!

In March 2021, AngelPirate had the honor of participating as a co-sponsor in the Australian premier of TS Hawkins’ The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G.

The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G, by TS Hawkins.

Antipodes Theatre Company (ATC) continues their bimonthly Ricochet Free Reading Series in an online format, featuring plays that have yet to be seen on Australian stages. The first plays in this lineup include The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G by U.S. playwright TS Hawkins. On International Women’s Day, ATC presents this lyrical homage to Ntozake Shange's for colored girls… which follows seven young girls on their journey into womanhood. This presentation is directed by Cheyenne Barboza and sponsored in part by AngelPirate Productions.

For more information, please visit The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G by TS Hawkins (tspoetics.com)

THANK YOU to everyone who joined us (as participating artists or as audience members and supporters) for The 5th Annual (and totally virtual) Bridge PHL Theatre Festival!

If you missed it, you can still watch the festival on our YouTube Channel.

Thank you to everyone who came out to support LIVE, LOVE, LIBERATE: A Tapestry of Life, The Bridge PHL’s first virtual event! If you missed it, you can still catch it HERE.

Poster artwork by Tiffani Dean, featuring photos by Sharita Riggs.

Jen Newby and Shelli Pentimall Bookler in White Script by Gabrielle Corsaro, which premiered at the 2019 Bridge PHL Theatre Festival. — Jen Newby and Shelli Pentimall Bookler in *White Script* by Gabrielle Corsaro, which premiered at the 2019 Bridge PHL Theatre Festival.

White Script is a dialogue on the path from colorblind-racism to anti-racism, as two white women friends grapple with their Black friend's comment that "white liberal women do racist stuff all the time."

Kathy Harmer in White Woman Meditates on White Privilege: An All Too True Story by Gabrielle Corsaro, which premiered at the 2016 Bridge PHL Theatre Festival — Kathy Harmer in *White Woman Meditates on White Privilege: An All Too True Story* by Gabrielle Corsaro, which premiered at the 2016 Bridge PHL Theatre Festival

A white woman’s internal dialogue of denial, awareness, self-interrogation, and growth at an anti-racism yoga bootcamp.

AngelPirate. Encouraging creative commotions.

The name AngelPirate is a conceptual mashup of Gabrielle Corsaro’s name: (Gabrielle/Gabriel = The angel of mercy) + (Corsaro/Corsair = An Italian word occasionally used for “pirate”) = AngelPirate: Undaunted efforts of disruption, towards our collective freedom, armed with humility and conviction.

Also by AngelPirate Productions / Gabrielle Corsaro:

Crash Therapy

Changing the world starts with a change inside ourselves and a willingness to break some stuff. We’re here to help with that.

Five Figure Compensation

Five women of diverse backgrounds confront and challenge myths and historical tropes about their bodies. Presented by Green Light Arts. Directed by Malika Oyetimein.

Om TV

The host of a New York public access TV yoga show celebrates the 2008 candidacy of Barack Obama. Presented by Green Light Arts. Directed and performed by Gabrielle Corsaro

The Rehearsal Skirt

An actress’s homage to a very special skirt, presented through her performance of a bit of each character the skirt has helped her to discover. Presented by Green Light Arts. Directed and performed by Gabrielle Corsaro.

The Pill Party: Come As You Are

The birth control pill celebrates her 50th birthday with a walk through her history, present, and potential future. Presented by Green Light Arts. Directed by Gabrielle Corsaro. Performed by Ruchama Bilenky.

Diversity Day

Two human resource representatives have a humorous but frank discussion about racist micro-aggressions and bias. Presented by The Bridge PHL. Directed by Gabrielle Corsaro and Carla Ezell. Performed by Carla Ezell and Kathy Harmer.

What You Stand For

Three white women are provoked by the continuous news of violence against unarmed Black people to take action and move from “non-racist” (not a thing) to anti-racist (a rare and necessary thing). Presented by The Bridge PHL. Directed by Gabrielle Corsaro. Performed by Susan Chase, Hannah Tsapatoris MacLeod, and Gabrielle Corsaro.

White Woman Meditates on White Privilege: An All Too True Story

A white woman’s internal dialogue of denial, awareness, self-interrogation, and growth at an anti-racism yoga bootcamp. Presented by The Bridge PHL. Directed by Gabrielle Corsaro. Performed by Kathy Harmer.

Gabrielle writes a blog called Beyond the Pale that currently lives over at The Bridge PHL website. Check it out and let us know what you think.