Abigail whitney

conservatory producer

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Abigail Whitney is an award-winning stage director, actor, fashion model, an artist educator and youth mentor. She has studied in theatre training programs and workshops across Toronto, and abroad in London, UK at Queen Mary University of London. Performing at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with UK’s award-winning Queen Mary Theatre Company.

Abigail was named a "one-of-a-kind Canadian model" and in 2020 was listed as "100 Black Artists to support this Juneteenth" by New York's Gritty Vibes Magazine. In 2020, University of Toronto’s The Varsity newspaper published a personal essay about her acclaimed university career and interviewed her on the front-page of their November 2018 paper in an article titled "UofT student, model, and director- how does Abigail Whitney do it all?" She was named a "quadruple threat" by UofT News "UofT students who crushed it." She was featured on CBC’s q, ByBlacks, CBC’s OurToronto, Eboss Canada and Broadway World.

Abigail made her stage directorial debut with the world premiere of Les Frères and won “Best Stage Director” at the University of Toronto Drama Coalition Awards in 2019 for her work. Abigail has since directed Father Figures, winner of the “Audience Choice Award” at the UofT 2020 Drama Festival and directed A Covid Carol in under 7 hours presented live at The 2020 Assembly Theatre Operation 24 Challenge. Abigail assistant directed Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu and Leah Cherniak in the Dora nominated Here are the Fragments. co-produced by The ECT Collective and The Theatre Centre.

For Volcano, Abigail assistant directed Ross Manson in Hannah Moscovitch’s Infinity, which toured Vancouver, BC in January 2020, and has been working closely with the company as a curator for Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha audience guide website, and as a Volcano Conservatory coordinator.

Abigail worked as an assistant film director on 4 out of 21 of Obsidian Theatre Company's 21 Black Futures short films airing on CBC Gem right now and was recently interviewed by UofT's Scarborough Campus' The Underground magazine sharing her gratifying experience.

Abigail Whitney is on the cover of Ark Magazine's 002 "The Reset" Issue released in 2021, where she's interviewed and featured as a 'Game Changer' an "innovative and fearless force, changing the arts as we know it."

In 2020, Abigail Whitney was added to the directory of stage directors and filmmakers at Creatress, an online platform providing visibility to gender minority creatives in Canada.