Abigail is a playwright, director, actress, and puppeteer whose stories laugh, dance, cry, and draw blood.
As a playwright, Abigail utilizes horror and comedy as parallel methods of catharsis; when she hears an audience gasp in fear or burst out laughing, she knows that her mission is complete.
Abigail makes art that investigates the body and all of its horrors, Appalachian and Southern folklore (she grew up in both South Carolina and Pennsylvania), and queer desire.
Her work is often multidisciplinary in nature, drawing on her love of dance and 14 years of experience playing the euphonium, French horn, and other brass instruments in both classical orchestras and jazz bands.
Honeysuckle: A play about the climate apocalypse, Southern white Evangelicalism, and being stuck in an underground bunker with your ex-best friend from middle school.
Selected Original Plays:
Blood Orange: A horror-comedy about grief, desire, opioid addiction, a lesbian roadkill-worshipping death cult, and the inherent viscera of being a teenage girl in the early 2000s.
Grief Play: A bizarro-comedy about the healing power of felt puppetry.
Simão Bacamarte in Greenhouse: The troubled psychiatrist in The Elif Collective’s adaptation of Machado de Assis’s classic novella, O alienista.
Selected Acting Experience:
Salem/Noah “Puck” Puckerman in Rachel Berry Saved My Life: The strange singer-songwriter/the self-proclaimed jock “badass” in this heartfelt exploration of Ryan Murphy’s Glee.
Darcy Snelgrave in One Flea Spare: An aging woman, desperate for freedom, at the heart of Naomi Wallace’s thrilling play, set in plague-ravaged 1600s England.
Selected Directing:
Timon of Athens (Director/Lead Adaptor/Songwriter): A new adaptation of Shakespeare’s underproduced piece, reimagined in a brat-pop world of queer nepo-baby debauchery.
Camp Cattywampus (Co-Director/Co-Playwright): A heartfelt song/dance/eulogy about the healing power of art and a performing arts summer camp.
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In addition to English, Abigail speaks German and has been learning Yiddish!
Abigail is a huge fan of FC Barcelona.
Her favorite foods are panang curry (with mock duck, ideally), vegetarian summer borscht, and paneer makhani.
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Shakespeare in Yiddish (as King Lear and Mendl) | The Yiddish Shakespeare Project | FRIGID New York, Hunter College, and The Idea Kitchen
Honeysuckle (Playwright) | Re/Venue, in Collaboration with the Bechdel Project | Directed by Alexandra Haddad
Blood Orange (Playwright) | Et Alia Theater
Greenhouse (Co-Playwright/Simão Bacamarte) | The Elif Collective | Directed by Shayan Hooshmand
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MOTOMAMI by Rosalía
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
Sorry to Bother You, dir. Boots Riley
Three Houses by Dave Malloy
This compilation of Lamine Yamal’s best skills and goals