Abigail A. Ramsay
Performance
TROY TOO
2023, NYC
Written by Karen Malpede Troy Too is a short, innovative, political, and poetic play, inspired by Euripides’ The Trojan Women and tackling the modern-day crises of Covid, Climate, and Racism.
A collaboration between Theater Three Collaborative, based in New York, and Persona Theater Company based in Athens.
I WAS A STRANGER TOO
2023, St Paul, MN
Written by Cynthia L. Cooper and directed by Carolyn Levy
2018, Remember the Women Institute – VIOLATED! Women in Holocaust and Genocide
The premiere of A Congolese Refugee Lives to Survive, written by Cynthia L. Cooper, adapted (with permission) from an interview conducted by HIAS in South Africa.
SERIOUS ADVERSE EFFECTS (Workshop Production)
2018 National Black Theatre
Written by Derek Lee McPhatter, directed by Mary E. Hodges
Part of the I AM Soul Playwright’s residency
Prison Baby: Deborah Jiang-Stein with Gloria Steinem
2017, 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
2017, 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
2017, 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
2017, 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.
Photographers:
Beatriz Schiller – Troy Too