Abbi Greenland

Abbi is a writer for stage and screen, an award-winning theatre maker and a founding member of RashDash, with Helen Goalen.

RashDash is at its very core a theatre company that excavates and explores the modern world through movement, text and music. Their 15-year, multi-award-winning history and extensive body of work has been called everything from feminist, “profound and extraordinary” (The Guardian), “sly, and smart. And Loud” (The Independent), “provocative… punk rock energy” (TimeOut) and “a form of creative vandalism” (The Guardian)! But at the very heart of RashDash are the founders and creative powerhouses that are Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen. Whilst they continue to make work for the stage as RashDash, Abbi and Helen are now taking their collaboration to the screen. They bring from their experimental theatre work a radical honesty, an interest in bodies, physicality and intimacy and a desire to explore women being powerful, being weird, being lonely and behaving badly. 

Abbi is currently developing her first series of short and feature length films in collaboration with Helen and working as a solo playwright, both in collaborative/devising processes and as a lead artist. 

Solo credits include: A LITTLE INQUEST INTO WHAT WE ARE ALL DOING HERE (This Egg: Fringe First 2024).

RashDash credits include: LOOK AT ME DON’T LOOK AT ME (Slung Low, Paines Plough, HOME, Theatre Clwyd), THE DARKEST CORNERS (Transform Festival 2017), TWO MAN SHOW (Northern Stage, Soho Theatre: Edinburgh Fringe First Winner 2016, Stage Award for Acting Excellence, shortlisted for an Off West End Award), WE WANT YOU TO WATCH (by RashDash and Alice Birch, National Theatre and UK Tour), OH, I CAN’T BE BOTHERED (Soho Theatre shortlisted for Off West End Award), THE UGLY SISTERS (Edinburgh Festival: shortlisted for the Total Theatre Award for Experimentation and Innovation), DARK WOODS DEEP SNOW(Northern Stage), SCARY GORGEOUS (Edinburgh Fringe First Award winner 2011), ANOTHER SOMEONE (Fringe First award winner 2010), and THE HONEYMOON.