THEATER

Photo by Sarah Sarty

Current Projects

The LeAb Iteration Lab
Multi-disciplinary collaborative partnership with Leah Souffrant, employing poetic tools such as repetition, silence, gesture, image, and movement to develop experimental performance works. Presenting new work at The Tank in November 2025.
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Les filles de Wilfred et Honorius (working title)
Collaboration with musician and québécoise conteuse Valérie Bilodeau (a.k.a. La Culottée) to create a bilingual performance exploring our family’s cross-border history. Graciously supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Solo Shows

Now available in a single volume from the University of Maine Press

LES FILLES DU QUOI?
An anglophone with francophone roots immigrates to Canada from the United States, a century after her great-grandparents immigrated in the opposite direction. She has questions: What does “francophone” mean? What’s the deal with the queen? Why is Jack Kerouac the only Franco-American anyone’s ever heard of? Is Céline Dion a witch? With this new comedic, intimate, and bilingual one-woman show, Franco-American writer and performer Abby Paige crosses borders of time and space in search of answers and finds the threads that connect the living and the dead, the present and the past, stories (les histoires) and History (L’Histoire). Premiered 2022.
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PIECEWORK: WHEN WE WERE FRENCH
Based on extensive research and interviews with Franco-Americans, this moving and hilarious one-woman show explores the legacy of more than a century of French-Canadian immigration to New England and how our stories, memories, and secrets make us who we are. Premiered 2009.
History comes in pieces. We stitch them together.
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Past Projects in Theater Creation

The Voices Project
Original musical stage production about coming of age in Vermont, produced in collaboration with a teen cast and crew. Co-Written & Co-Directed with Bess O’Brien, 2005.

Killing My Lobster
Featured writer and performer in more than a dozen original sketch comedy productions by premiere San Francisco comedy collective, 1999-2003.

Complete actor’s CV available upon request

A cast photo from Lost Nation Theater's production of Pride & Prejudice. The patriarch of the Bennet family is seated, surrounded by his wife and four daughters.