Gabrielė Bakšytė is a Lithuanian born director and librettist, currently based between Paris and the Curonian Spit. After graduating in Musicology from the University of Hamburg and in Opera Directing from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin in parallel to her own activities, Gabrielė works with artists Romeo Castellucci, Silvia Costa, Philippe Quesne and Cindy Van Acker. Her personal work circles around topics of loneliness, the relationship between violence and tenderness, poverty, and the ephemerality of human connection.

As a polyglot author, she produces works guided by multilingualism pared down to sterile minimum which lends her stagings space for a unique blend of traditional opera techniques and experimental performance art. Using the human body as her primary tool, she creates visual displays suspended in time that convey powerful emotions without fully relying on spoken words.

Primarily working in music theatre and opera she utilises silence as a crucial layer of communication. This was most evident in her graduation work SNOWHOARDERS - a theatre of silence based on Eastern European traditional song and classical music and her recent opera ICARO (2021-23) about metropolitan urban explorers, written for Ensemble Modern and later expanded under a commission by Staatsoper Stuttgart.

Gabrielė is a fellow of Akademie Musiktheater Heute of the Deutsche Bank Foundation, Kölner Gymnasial- und Stiftungsfonds. Her work is supported by the Lithuanian Cultural Commission as well as Nordic Culture Point.