ABIGAIL WHITNEY

Assistant Director, Assistant Dramaturge

Abigail Whitney is an international fashion model, actor (Amazon’s The Boys), and award-winning director and producer. Recognized as a "Rising Star" by The South Carolina Voyager and a "Game Changer" by Canada’s Ark Magazine for being an "innovative and fearless force changing Canadian arts," she was also named one of "8 Black Artists to Support" by New York’s Gritty Vibes Studios in 2020 and 2024. Most recently, she was honoured at the 2025 Haitian Excellence Gala in Toronto for her leadership and dedication to Arts and Culture.

Select directing credits include: Eureka Day (Associate Director, Coal Mine Theatre), How To Catch Creation (Apprentice Director, Soulpepper Theatre), the Canadian premiere of Macbitches (TMU Performance), and the acclaimed Haitian classic The Noose (2024 Next Stage Festival) featured on CTV News, CBC Arts, Now Toronto, Radio Canada, and The More the Merrier with Donna G. In New York, she directed American Dream Deferred for the Obie-winning "48 Hours in...™ Harlem." Her earlier works, Les Frères and Father Figures, earned Best Director at the UofT Drama Coalition Awards and Audience Choice at the UofT Drama Festival.

As an assistant director, Abigail assisted on four films in Obsidian Theatre Company’s 21 Black Futures anthology (CBC Gem), which won the 2022 Canadian Screen Award for Best Web Program or Series. Other assistant directing credits include the Dora-nominated Here Are The Fragments (The Theatre Centre) and Volcano Theatre’s The Book of Life, which toured to Rwanda, Edinburgh, and the United States.