Gabe Dunn

Dunn attended Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He majored in Multimedia Journalism, graduating in 2009. Dunn began performing during his first year at Emerson with the sketch comedy troupe Chocolate Cake City (CCC). Dunn had wanted to audition for CCC, but was too scared to do so until he was urged to take the audition slot of a former boyfriend who had become sick the day before and could not perform. His audition was successful and he became a member of the troupe. At the time he considered himself a better writer than actor, and working in CCC allowed him to do both, since members were expected to write and perform their own sketches. == Writing ==

100 Interviews In October 2010, Dunn created 100 Interviews, a Tumblr blog in which he intended to publish transcripts of 100 interviews, given over the course of a single year, with a variety of different people. Interview subjects included a transgender person, a rocket scientist, an Abraham Lincoln expert, and Stephen Colbert. His initial inspiration for the project stemmed from his personal desire to meet different people and hear their stories. However, Dunn also wanted to offer readers the opportunity to "vicariously meet people" whose lives were different from his own. After trying and failing to interview Colbert by crashing a $2,000-a-plate dinner gala, Dunn settled for asking him questions during a pre-show Q&A for The Colbert Report. Dunn's attempts to gain wider exposure for what he called his "diary journalism" were initially met with rejection. Dunn has been recognized as a success case of the use of social media for self-promotion, In December 2010, The Village Voice named 100 Interviews the "Best Tumblr" in their annual Web Awards.'' New York Times culture editor Adam Sternbergh also discovered Dunn via 100 Interviews, and invited him to write for the Times.'' Freelance and staff writing Dunn began doing freelance writing for publications including Thought Catalog and GOOD. In 2012, he began writing a regular column in The New York Times titled "They're Famous! (On the Internet)", which profiled various Internet personalities. Books Dunn wrote his debut novel, I Hate Everyone but You, with Allison Raskin and published it on September 5, 2017. Dunn and Raskin published a sequel in July 2019, titled Please Send Help. In January 2019, Dunn published Bad With Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together, a book based on the podcast. In June 2022, he published a second finance-related book titled Stimulus Wreck: Rebuilding After a Financial Disaster. == YouTube and podcasting ==

Dunn became well known as a member of BuzzFeed Video's early cohort of video personalities. He was also a producer of the independent community radio station WFMU. Just Between Us In April 2014, Dunn created a comedic variety YouTube show with his best friend Allison Raskin called Just Between Us. The two play characters based on themselves: Dunn plays a sex-positive, bisexual, feminist in contrast to Raskin's uptight, straight, single character. They began with giving love advice, then added comedy sketches. The advice show sometimes features guests, which in the past have included family members and close friends. , Just Between Us had around 646,000 subscribers and more than 178million views on YouTube. In March 2019, Dunn and Raskin launched a podcast version of the show. His guests have included financial advisor Suze Orman and New Yorker journalist Jane Mayer. == Film and television ==

Dunn has written several movie scripts, and has sold several pilots. Dunn played the recurring character of Brie in Take My Wife, a television series that aired from 2016 to 2018. In 2018, he worked as a writer on Netflix's animated sitcom Big Mouth. In December 2022, Dunn's directorial debut short film Grindr Baby was selected for Frameline Voices 2023, a curated program of short films and episodic content representing experiences unique to LGBTQ+ people and communities. == Personal life ==

Dunn is transgender and uses he/him pronouns. He first came out in a July 5, 2021, interview on the Gender Reveal podcast, in which he said he had been exploring his gender and was probably non-binary. In January 2023, Dunn revealed via social media that he had changed his name to Gabriel Shane ("Gabe"). He is Jewish. He has bipolar disorder, and his hope to see the disorder more accurately portrayed in media in part motivated him to create Apocalypse Untreated. == Works ==

Books Films • Grindr Baby (2023) == References ==