abby

is a screenwriter, director, and playwright. She loves using genres like horror and fantasy to tell deranged coming of age stories about women, girls, and weird little monsters.

She was one of four drama writers selected for the 2025 Warner Bros Discovery Access TV Writer’s program. Her thriller-dark-comedy feature script SERVE YOURSELF is in development with Purple Pebble Pictures and Fresh Fish Films. Her teen comedy feature script, SMUT CLUB, was selected for the 2023 Athena Film Festival Writers Lab, and was a semifinalist for the 2025 Athena List. Her supernatural-horror feature THE HUNT won the 2025 Stanford in Entertainment All Write Now Competition.

Her debut short film, SKIN DEEP, played at festivals in the US and the UK, and is streaming now on ALTER with 200K+ views. She directed Sophie Fleur de Bruijn’s supernatural mockumentary short THE CRYPTID TAPES, which made its festival debut at the HollyShorts Comedy Festival in LA. She is currently in post-production on her comedy short YOU CHANGED.

MFA in Writing for the Screen & Stage from Northwestern University, BA English/Creative Writing from Stanford University.

Her favorite holiday is Halloween.