[Mourning//Morning]: Mɔɹnɪŋ (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798992283938)

Gelsey Bell (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary performance creator, composer, playwright, and vocalist. Her recent works include the experimental opera mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] (2023), commissioned by the HERE Arts Center and presented in the Prototype Festival; Cairns (2020), a soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery; the musical one-act Archaeopteris (2025), commissioned by Wet Ink; and thingNY's collaboratively written opera Mouthful (2024). She has released multiple albums, including the recent mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning], Skylighght, and Heads Together. She has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Opera America, Herb Alpert/Ucross, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Japan Foundation, NYSCA, and others. Performance highlights include Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway, Off-Broadway, etc.) and Ghost Quartet, Robert Ashley's Foreign Experiences and Improvement, Darius Jones's Samesoul Maker, Alaina Ferris's The Lydian Gale Parr, Aaron Siegel's Rainbird, and other works by Jay Afrisando, Kate Soper, Tomomi Adachi, Dan Trueman, and others. She has a PhD in Performance Studies from NYU and has published articles in TDR/The Drama Review (for which she is a contributing editor), The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies (for which she is an associate editor), Tempo, Performance Research, and others.