“FOR ME, The hardest thing about acting is that I have stop being me for a while; because I love who I am.”
-Abigail Paige
Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over. - Alan Rickman
Hi! I’m Abby - Just A Girl Behaving Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances.
A little about Abby:
An award nominated and winning actress, Abigail has been entertaining audiences in the US and UK in theatre since she was 9 years old. In addition to being a Musical Theatre Major at Rhode Island College, she has studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School Of The Theatre and The Stella Adler Studio Of Acting in NY. Some of her favorite roles include Elsa in the WWHS production of “Frozen the Broadway Musical”, Christmas Past in the Stadium Theatre production of “A Christmas Carol”, Wendy in the FUSE Theatre of CT production of “Lost Girl” and Alice in the Vanilla Box production of “Alice in Wonderland”. Abigail has won the Ocean State Star Award for Outstanding Lead Performer for her portrayal as Elsa in “Frozen” and her short film “Me, Myself & I” won a national award and was a New England EMMY Honorable Mention. In her spare time, she loves to scrapbook, spend time with her friends & volunteer with various organizations.
A note from Abby:
Hi! I wanted to take a minute & share with you something that I have been thinking a lot about recently. During my last couple of shows, I was asked a similar question by 2 different people. At Lost Girl, during a talk back, I was paid an amazing compliment & asked what my process was for getting up there & performing such a complex character every time. After Frozen, someone who had come to see my 1st show & my last asked me “after performing 6 shows, how was it that your performance at the final show was just as good, if not better, than the 1st?”
My answer may be difficult to understand, but at the end of the day, it’s not me performing several shows. It’s Wendy, or Elsa, or JoJo, or Christmas Past living these events in their lives. For my character, every performance is their first time experiencing those events. As an actor, I want nothing more than the audience to see something of themselves in me, so giving every performance like it’s both my characters first and my last achieves that goal. It really helps, as Stanislavski said, to “love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art”.
An excellent cast and crew absolutely help to make it all possible. Regardless of the size of the production, everyone has their individual roles to maintain the illusion, but theatre is a team sport. We are all responsible for each other. We are — ‘Ohana. We laugh, we love, we fight. But, in the end, we all have the same goal: Put on the best production possible! The only way that happens is together.
The things I love most about theatre are that it is unpredictable & fleeting. In theatre, the only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain -- ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AT ANYTIME! that’s not a bad way to live a life.
Thank you so very much for visiting, feel free to stay a while & look around.
Oh and...Go See A Show!
Much love,
A
“A theatre's as good a place as any for magic.”
- Sherry Shonin