Abby Paige
Abby Paige is a poet, playwright, actor, and Rover writer. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications in the U.S. and Canada, including Saranac Review, carte blanche, Hunger Mountain Review, and Bitch Magazine. Her solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, was commissioned by the city of Burlington, Vermont, in conjunction with its Champlain Quadricentennial Festival and premiered there in 2009. The play, which explores the legacy of French-Canadian immigration to New England, has subsequently toured throughout Vermont, where Abby was born and raised.
Abby began writing and performing comedy while an undergrad at Vassar College, where she majored in Latin American Studies. After graduation she received a Fulbright and pursued research on comedy and satire in post-Allende Chile. Upon returning to North America, she moved to the West Coast, where she went on to spend five years as a writing and performing member of the award-winning comedy collective, Killing My Lobster, in San Francisco. An Easterner at heart, she returned to Vermont in 2003 and since then has been featured in numerous Vermont stage and film productions including Judevine and Tartuffe at Montpelier’s Lost Nation Theater and the Vermont Public Television comedy series Windy Acres. Abby also co-wrote and co-directed The Voices Project, a documentary theater production that toured Vermont in 2005 and received the Agency of Human Services Secretary’s Award for its extraordinary contribution to the health of Vermonters. The show was subsequently adapted into the independent feature film Shout It Out!, for which Abby co-wrote the screenplay.
As a freelance writer and editor, Abby has worked for software companies, non-profit organizations, newspapers, and magazines. She received her MFA in Writing and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Abby immigrated to Quebec in 2008 and currently lives in Montreal.
