Performer

Gelsey Bell performs primarily as a vocalist, actress, and multi-instrumentalist. She often collaborates with living composers to develop new works in experimental opera, musical theater, new music, creative music, and sound art. Many of these works involve improvisation. She is also a primary performer for her own works. (For more on her own works, see the COMPOSER section.) In addition to her voice, Gelsey plays (with limited ability) piano, synthesizers, daxophone, metallophone, celtic harp, accordion, electronics, percussion, and objects.

Performances

shuffleyamamba: Yamamba as a Bear - Yasuko Yokoshi with Gelsey Bell

Vocalist and Composer

DANCE-THEATER

Yokohama Dance Collective Festival, Yokohama, Japan, 2021

Rainbird - Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel

Beatrice Rainbird

OPERA

Concert, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, 2021

Wealth from the Salt Seas - Anna Sperber with Gelsey Bell

Performer and Composer

DANCE

The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, NY, 2018

Video available.

Ghost Quartet - Dave Malloy

Pearl White, Sheherazade, Soldier, Lady Usher,

Co-Arranger

Metallophone, Celtic Harp, Accordion, Percussion

MUSICAL

Erickson Theatre Off Broadway, Seattle, WA, 2018

New York Theater Workshop, New York, NY, 2017

@Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2016

Life in Deep Ellum, Dallas, TX, 2016

The Curran, San Francisco, CA, 2015

Oberon, A.R.T., Cambridge, MA, 2015

CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2015
Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, NY, 2015

McKittrick Hotel, New York, NY, 2015

Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY, 2014

Video, Original Cast Album, and Live Album available

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - Dave Malloy

Princess Mary/Opera Singer/Maidservant

MUSICAL

Broadway, Imperial Theater, New York, NY, 2016-2017

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Cambridge, MA, 2015-2016

Kazino, New York, NY, 2013

Ars Nova, New York, NY, 2012

Original Cast Album and Broadway Cast Album available.

Crash - Robert Ashley

Gelsey

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2018

Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, 2015

The Whitney, New York, NY, 2014

Video and album available

On the Shore Dimly Seen - Gregory Whitehead

Vocalist and Improviser

RADIO

Soundproof, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2015

Recording available.

Here Be Sirens - Kate Soper

Phaino

OPERA

Dixon Place, New York, NY, 2014

Video available