Everyone has a story to tell! For all skill and experience levels.
In these workshops facilitated by Northlight Theatre teaching artist Abby Thomspon, you will generate and share through writing prompts, discussion, and peer feedback.
About the Writing Workshop Teaching Artist:
Abby Thompson is an Emmy Award Winning voiceover artist, actor, educator, and arts advocate. In 2022, she received an Emmy Award for her narration of a Program Promotion Campaign for a PBS documentary series about Muhammad Ali. She is the current 2024 recipient of the League of Chicago Theatre’s Samuel G. Roberson Jr. Resident Fellowship for Artivism in partnership with Filament Theatre, where she is developing an original devised play based on true stories of youth in the foster care system. Abby has taught and facilitated theater with Steppenwolf Theatre, Filament Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Storycatchers Theatre, and Collaboraction. Abby has performed professionally with First Stage Children’s Theater, Filament Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and African American Children’s Theatre. Abby is currently part of the immersive theater ensemble, Albany Park Theater Project in their production of Port of Entry. For voiceover work, she is represented by NV Talent. Abby holds a BA in Acting with a minor in Voiceover from Columbia College Chicago. She has spoken on several arts advocacy panels, including the Education Pre-Conference for the Theatre Communications Conference 2019. In her spare time, she is found salsa, bachata, or cumbia dancing and traveling the world! For more of her work, visit: abbythompson.org.
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