Abigail is a playwright, 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, and queer desire.
Her work is often multidisciplinary in nature, drawing on her love of dance and 14 years of experience playing the euphonium in both classical orchestras and jazz bands.
Honeysuckle: A play about being stuck in an underground bunker with your ex-best friend from middle school.
Blood Orange: A horror-comedy about grief, desire, opioid addiction, and a lesbian roadkill-worshipping death cult.
Grief Play: A bizarro-comedy about the healing power of felt puppetry.
Selected Original Plays:
Simão Bacamarte in Greenhouse: The troubled psychiatrist in The Elif Collective’s adaptation of Machado de Assis’s novella, O alienista.
Salem/Noah “Puck” Puckerman in Rachel Berry Saved My Life: The strange singer-songwriter/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 plague play.
Selected Acting Experience:
Selected Directing:
Timon of Athens (Director/Lead Adaptor/Songwriter): A new adaptation of Shakespeare’s 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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Abigail has studied German for over 10 years.
She 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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Hand to God (Jessica) | Gallery Players | Directed by Alex Rogals
Alpha (Playwright) | Directed by Alexandra Haddad
Greenhouse (Co-Playwright/Simão Bacamarte) | The Elif Collective | Directed by Shayan Hooshmand
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Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
Lurker, dir. Alex Russell
Three Houses by Dave Malloy
This compilation of Lamine Yamal’s best skills and goals