The Bessies Award Special Citation 2020 Honoree Jacqulyn Buglisi for the Table of Silence Project
Martha Hill Mid-Career Award celebrating Jacqulyn Buglisi 2024
Gabrielle Willis
Dancer
GABRIELLE WILLIS graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in Dance where she performed works by Twyla Tharp, Pascal Rioult, and Jessica Lang. She helped to facilitate the Stand Up Speak Out project with Bedford Hills, the largest maximum-security prison for women in New York State. Since graduating, Gabrielle has performed with MoveOpolis!, Graham 2 and also curated two benefit performances in an effort to raise money and awareness for the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Gabrielle joined BDT in 2021, performing in the Reimagined Table of Silence Project 9/11 at Lincoln Center, The Threads Project#1: “Universal Dialogues”, and assisting in BDT’s creative incubation labs.