While being influenced by Martinique, Gaël Octavia's writing deals with broad issues: the family, the status of women, social exclusion and migration.

In 2003, actor Greg Germain chose her first play, Le Voyage, for a reading in his theatre at the Chapelle du Verbe Incarné in Avignon.

[3] The following year, Congre et homard, another play, was selected by the reading committee of Textes en Paroles, an association based in Guadeloupe working to promote contemporary Caribbean theatrical writing.

[8] After a tour of the Caribbean, in Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique and Guyana, the play was performed dring the 2011 Avignon Festival, before being published the following year by Lansman, under the Etc Caraibe label.

La fin de Mame Baby is a story of four women narrated by Aline, a home care nurse just returned to her neighbourhood, after fleeing it seven years before.

[9][10] Rhapsodie was premiered in 2020 by Abdon Fortuné Koumbha at the Centre Culturel Municipal Jean Gagnant, in Limoges, as part of their autumn theatre festival.