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Her electronic-rock outfit, St. Eve, began as solo performance-art and blossomed into a full-on theatrical act, touring the US in venues like Irving Plaza, CBGB, Webster Hall, House of Blues, and Lollapalooza, sold-out shows in London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, and Berlin, and opened for major recording artists. Wings, parachutes, dancing girls, fire, hallucinogenic images, and a rotating cast of willing musicians rounded out the program on any given night. St. Eve's songs appear on various tv shows. Gabrielle joined renowned VJ stars, Honeygun Labs, mixing live video on US tours for major corporate clients including Bacardi. Later she became a story producer for VH1, produced/directed/edited webisodes and segments for Spike TV, Playgirl TV, Webster Hall, Crobar and other channels, clubs, and clients. She pays a few bills as a video editor and as an English/Spanish voiceover engineer and talent. The House of St. Eve is Ms. Penabaz' production and event company. It's most known for "T.H.o.S.E." underground parties on both coasts of the US, and infamous for unusual themes, conversation-inducing performances, and draconian door policies. Some past themes: Improper High-Tea (with sugar-pantied hostesses), Fortune A Go-Go (with custom fortune cookies), FairyTail (a chimera dreamhouse where patrons received unicorn hats and rings to play with one's new unicorn friends), 'Til Death Do You Part (a kind of wedding reception), etc. Any kind of alchemy is Gabrielle's cup of tea, so her work focuses on transformation, transmutation and the ability to laugh at oneself in the process. This partly explains her frequent collaborations with Nicole Blackman (no stranger to the shimmers and shadows of the human condition), most notably as Blackman's Line Producer and filmmaker on Beloved for The Fierce Festival two years in a row. Most recently, Penabaz directed and shot the film "Les Chaussures", a European multi-city piece featuring the high-end exotic shoes of LaRare as well as footage for Performance Artist Mike's Smith's infamous character "Baby Ikki" at The Burning Man Festival (part of a year-long collaboration with Mike Kelley). She premiered The Sex Crimes Cabaret to packed houses at the Marigny Theatre for the New Orleans Fringe Festival (November 2008) and was invited back to do the show in March of 2009, after a successful showing at the Engine Collision Fest in Los Angeles. Sex Crimes is a multi-media show about sex laws and the inevitable human reaction. 'Til Death Do You Part - Marry Yourself!, her rite-of-passage piece, was most recently performed at Figment on Governors Island - NYC, the Shunt Vaults in London for Visions of Excess/SPILL Festival 2009 and also presented at KK Projects Gallery (Life is Art Foundation), for the New Orleans Biennial "Prospect 1". In this piece, performed privately or in event settings, Gabrielle marries people to themselves with all of the trimmings (usually after a brief but refreshing exorcism).
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