The Three Centers: A Framework for Inclusivity in the Acting Classroom

ABIGAIL KILLEEN is a theatre artist committed to generating collaborative performance that places women in leadership roles: offstage as directors, writers, and producers, and onstage outside of traditional narratives, investigating themes of grace and transformation. She generated, produced, and performed in Babette’s Feast, a theatrical adaptation of Isak Dinesen’s short story, which was developed at New York Theatre Workshop and premiered at Portland Stage, Maine, in January of 2018. Killeen earned her BFA at NYU, Tisch, her MFA at Brandeis University and has performed with New York Theatre Workshop, Compagnia de’ Colombari, The Theatre at St. Clement’s, and Naked Angels, with award nominations or honors for her work on Doll’s House Part 2 at the Good Theater, The Amish Project at The Portland Stage Studio, and Hamlet, and Macbeth with Fenix. She is a proud Affiliate Artist at Portland Stage Company and currently serves as Professor of Theater and Chair of the Department of Theater and Dance at Bowdoin College.