Abigail Ramsay
Education
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)
Three-Year Acting Diploma
Brown University
A.B. English Literature
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Projects
Recent Performance and Directing Work
"Running on Glass" by Cynthia L. Cooper
NYSSSA School of Theatre
"Running on Glass" details the lives of six ground-breaking athletes, who smashed walls for themselves and generations of women to follow.
Performed at the NY State Summer School for the Arts at SUNY Delhi, in Delhi, NY.
Violated! Women in the Holocaust and Genocide
Remember the Women Institute at the Ronald Feldman Gallery
The premiere of A Congolese Refugee Lives to Survive, performed by Abigail Ramsay and written by Cynthia L. Cooper, adapted (with permission) from an interview conducted by HIAS in South Africa.
Serious Adverse Effects (Workshop)
National Black Theatre
By Derek McPhatter | Directed by Mary E. Hodges
Featuring: Abigail Ramsay, Patrice Bell, Nadia Brown, & Christopher M. Smith
Part of the I AM Soul Playwright's residency
THE (2nd) UN-AUGURATION, An Evening of American Voices
29th Street Playwrights Collective
An evening of short plays, spoken word and flash drama about living in America TODAY!
Featuring short plays by: Melissa Bell, Cynthia Cooper, Quinn D. Eli, David Hilder, Penny Jackson, Robin Rice, Carrie Robbins, David Sard, John Robert Tillotson, Michael Wells-Oakes, Matthew J. Wells, Suzanne Willet.
Prison Baby: Deborah Jiang-Stein with Gloria Steinem
Brooklyn Museum Sackler Center series “States of Denial: The Illegal Incarceration of Women, Children, and People of Color.”
Performing the stories of incarcerated women around the country. Deborah Jiang-Stein, author of the memoir Prison Baby, will be joined by Gloria Steinem for an authentic and intimate conversation about the mass incarceration of women, mental illness and substance abuse within prisons nationwide, the collateral damage when mothers are incarcerated, and community alternatives to incarceration that work.
Beyond the Oak Trees
National Black Theatre Festival 2017 (Winston-Salem, NC)
Playing the dual roles of Harriet Tubman and a woman who joined her on her last trip on the underground railroad.
The Room Sings
Talking Band at LaMama ETC (NYC)
A room in a country house sings of those who have lived there over a span of seventy years. Performed with striking theatricality by OBIE award winning Talking Band using an array of genres – 40’s Noir, Chinese Ghost Tale, Chekhovian Farce/Tragedy, and a Sicilian Puppet Opera sung by beavers – their stories intertwine and illumine each other.
Beyond the Oak Trees
Crossroads Theatre Company (New Brunswick, NJ)
Playing the dual roles of Harriet Tubman and a woman who joined her on her last trip on the underground railroad.
Girl Be Heard: Across Borders Trinidad
Central Bank Auditorium
Director
Directed U.S. Embassy of Trinidad and Tobago-sponsored performance of award-winning show Trafficked.
Girl Be Heard: Across Borders Geneva
Graduate Institute and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations
Director
Girl Be Heard was deeply honored to have been invited by Ambassador Pamela Hamamoto of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva to address issues that affect adolescent girls around the world. Directed the performance at the Mission and Graduate Institute.
Holocaust Remembrance Project: Bosnia
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Director
Professional Experience
Recent Producing and Arts Management Experience
Girl Be Heard
March 2014 - October 2017
Director of Global Partnerships
Girl Be Heard, an empowerment theatre company that brings girls’ stories to the global stage
Built global program, which brought company members to perform in eight countries. In partnership with the U.S. State Department through the Embassy of Trinidad and Tobago, GBH realized the long-held strategic goal to establish a program outside the United States to develop a space for girls and young women to share their voices, develop leadership skills, and become activists for social change.
Red Shirt Entertainment
February - December 2013
Resident Director
Mixing my passion for global issues, human rights, and theatre. I assisted on performances commemorating the genocides in Rwanda, Darfur, and as the result of the Native American Removal Act and directed a piece on the Bosnian Genocide.
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