Gabriela (°1970, Córdoba) is an Argentine-Italian choreographer and director who has lived and worked in Belgium for more than thirty years. In 2000, she co-founded the Brussels-based dance theatre company Peeping Tom together with Franck Chartier, playing a defining role in shaping its singular artistic identity: theatrical worlds where hyperrealism gradually slips into the surreal, revealing the fragility, desires and hidden impulses of its characters.

As co-director of Peeping Tom, Gabriela Carrizo has shaped some of the company's most emblematic productions, including Le Jardin (2002), Le Salon (2004), Le Sous Sol (2007), 32 rue Vandenbranden (2009) and A Louer (2011). Within the company's collective artistic practice, she has led major creations such as Moeder (2016), an evocative exploration of memory, motherhood and loss. She later reunited with Franck Chartier for Kind (2019). More recently, Gabriela has continued to expand her artistic universe with La Visita (2022) and Chroniques (2025), the latter co-created with Raphaëlle Latini. 

Alongside her work with Peeping Tom, Gabriela has created extensively for other companies and institutions. Her piece The Missing Door (2013) for Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 1) received the Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh International Festival. She returned to NDT in 2022 for La Ruta, which was awarded Best New Dance Production at the Olivier Awards in London in 2024. Other notable projects outside Peeping Tom include The Land (2015) with the Münchner Residenztheater. 

In 2026, Gabriela directs Carmen for the Salzburg Festival in collaboration with conductor Teodor Currentzis, bringing together a cast of experienced Peeping Tom performers and continuing her commitment to collective creation.

An important aspect of Gabriela's work is the exchange of artistic knowledge. She is one of the initiators of The Kitchen, Peeping Tom's creative laboratory: a space for experimentation and shared research, where the company's 25 years of artistic practice continue to inspire both emerging artists and its own creative process.

Born in Argentina, Gabriela began dancing at the age of 10 at the multidisciplinary school directed by Norma Raimondi in Córdoba, where she created her first choreographies. At nineteen, she moved to Europe and worked with artists including Caroline Marcadé, Alain Platel, Koen Augustijnen and Needcompany, while steadily developing her own choreographic voice alongside Franck Chartier and Eurudike De Beul.