Abby Thompson is an Emmy Award Winning voiceover artist, actor, educator, playwright, 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 was the 2024 recipient of the League of Chicago Theatre’s Samuel G. Roberson Jr. Resident Fellowship for Artivism, where she wrote, directed, and produced Alex in Windyland, a devised fantasy allegorical play based on true stories of youth in the foster care system at Chicago’s Lydia Home. The production premiered at Filament Theatre in May 2025 and Milwaukee, WI in July 2025 and was featured on Playbill and BroadwayWorld.
Abby has taught and facilitated theater with Steppenwolf Theatre, Filament Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Mudlark, Storycatchers, and Collaboraction. Abby has performed professionally with First Stage Children’s Theater, Filament Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, African American Children’s Theatre, and Albany Park Theater Project (Port of Entry). Abby holds a BA in Acting with a minor in Voiceover from Columbia College Chicago. She has spoken on several arts advocacy panels and led workshops at the Education Pre-Conference for the Theatre Communications Conference and the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. In her spare time, she is found salsa, bachata, or cumbia dancing and traveling the world! For more of her work, visit: abbythompson.org.