Biography

The daughter of acclaimed screenwriter and novelist Gabrielle B. Burton and Roger Burton, Gabrielle grew up in Buffalo, NY. She began technical work in film as a sound mixer and moved into producing when she co-produced the romantic comedy Just Friends (1997). She helms the production company Five Sisters Productions with her four sisters Maria Burton, Jennifer Burton, Ursula Burton, and Charity Burton. In addition to her work as a writer and director, Gabrielle continues to act professionally in a variety of films and plays.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Gabrielle Burton helms the film company Five Sisters Productions with her real life siblings. She is director of "Kings, Queens, And In-Betweens," a feature-length documentary on the fluidity of gender identity as seen through the window of drag queens and kings in Columbus, Ohio. She is producer, director, and co-writer on the web series "Old Guy," a comedy about the image of aging in the media. Her feature and short film credits include: "Manna From Heaven" (MGM/Sony), "Temps" (Netflix), "Just Friends" (AMC/We Channel), "The Happiest Day Of His Life" (MTV/Logo, winner Viewer's Choice LOGO), "Letting Go Of God" (Showtime), as well as nationally released commercials and PSAs. As a director, Burton got her training in film school at the Ecole Superieure d'Audio-Visuel in Toulouse, France, where she received a DEUP degree with High Honors for her work. Burton worked on the television program "Law & Order" in their director training program. After an Isobel Briggs scholarship to study music at Berklee College of Music, she won a Rotary Scholarship to study film in France. Her short, Sage And Time, was selected for the La Corrida International Film Festival in France, and Burton was invited as the opening night speaker to show Manna From Heaven at La Corrida's 10th film festival. A graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe, Burton is a published poet, and also wrote and directed the full length plays "Sage And Time" and "Club Venus" at the ART's Loeb Ex theater. She was featured on the Voice Of America program and in the Harvard Crimson as a talented young artist and was awarded summa cum laude for her creative writing thesis, a collection of travel stories: "Where The Best Is Like The Worst." Strongly invested in storytelling on the page and screen, Burton was a scholarship recipient at the esteemed Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and then was invited back as staff. She was a guest at the Columbus Arts Festival reading her poetry; her poems "Warning" will appear in spring 2014 Los Angeles review; "Connection," "What We Are Made Of," and "Touch" will be published in the anthology "The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss," due for release in March 2014. Burton just won the Thomas A. Wilhelmus award for Best Nonfiction of 2013 from Southern Indiana Review for "East of East," about the giant turtles in Malaysia. Burton won 2013's Ohio Arts Council's Artist of Excellence award, and was also chosen to give a Tedx Talk on the subject of drag and gender roles. She is heavily involved in grassroots activism, and helmed the CAST commercial campaign to stop human trafficking and slavery with Julia Ormond.
- IMDb mini biography by: Five Sisters Productions

Daughter of Gabrielle B. Burton and Roger V. Burton