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.
Tickets for Blood Orange at A.R.T / New York Theatres are now on sale!
Blood Orange, produced by Et Alia Theater, will run from September 11-27, 2025.
Blood Orange tells the story of Faye, a teenage girl who, after discovering her father’s dead body, turns to God but only hears silence. As her grief becomes increasingly compounded by her mother’s neglect, Faye begins to look for salvation in the curly fur and spindly horns of a piece of nightmarish roadkill. She soon recruits Eden, her awkward semi-friend, into her new religion. Together, the girls dance, pray, sing, draw blood, and fall in love.
Blood Orange is a strange and thought-provoking horror-comedy about grief, teenage girlhood, sexuality, and the American South.
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.
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.
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 is learning German and 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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Alpha (Playwright) | La Femme Productions | Directed by Britt Berke
Blood Orange (Playwright) | Et Alia Theater | Directed by Vernice Miller
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
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