Abigail is a BAFTA nominated Producer and Co-Director of UK-based arts agency Animate Projects. Abigail established the company with co-founder Gary Thomas in 2007. Animate is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. It exists to support artists to experiment, collaborate and produce bold animation projects.
In 2018, Abigail co-produced I’m OK with Elizabeth Hobbs and the National Film Board of Canada, which led to the BAFTA British Short Animation nomination. In 2022, collaborating again with Elizabeth Hobbs, and securing the support of the BFI Filmmaking Fund, short animation The Debutante had much success. The film was Oscar shortlisted and won several awards, including a British Animation Award, SXSW Jury Prize, Grand Prizes at Bucheon IAF and ANIMATOR Festival. In 2024, Abigail produced Maryam Mohajer’s BFI Filmmaking Fund backed And Granny Would Dance, with awards including Grand Prize for Best Short Animation at Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, and Best of Festival and Best Animation awards at Aesthetica Short Film Festival.
Recent productions include: Daughters of the Late Colonel by Elizabeth Hobbs, which premieres at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2026, and Kris Hofmann’s VR experience Out of Nowhere which premiered at Venice Immersive as part of the Venice International Film Festival 2025, and has since been exhibited at SXSW, Clermont-Ferrand SFF, and won Best Immersive Film at Manchester Animation Festival.
In 2024, Abigail was invited to join the Short Films and Feature Animation branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the Academy’s LGBTQ+ Coalition.
Abigail has produced screening programmes and has led or participated in panel events for a host of organisations including the Austrian Culture Forum London, Underwire Festival, Japan Foundation, Vienna Shorts, and the London International Animation Festival, where she has curated the Figures in Focus programme since 2017. She has served on juries at Encounters Festival, Visegrad Animation Forum, London International Animation Festival, Anijam, The Smalls, Flatpack Festival, Animest, Linoleum Festival, Vienna Shorts, and BAFTA Scotland.
Abigail has also given presentations at the Royal College of Art’s Ecstatic Truth symposium, at Ars Electronica Festival’s Expanded Animation Symposium in Austria, and has run a masterclass with Don Hertzfeldt at Vienna Independent Shorts. She has contributed to several editions of the ANIDOX:LAB at The Animation Workshop in Denmark. She sometimes goes into Universities, including Royal College of Art, London College of Communication and Central Saint Martins, to talk to animation students about her work and to critique theirs.
Abigail was previously the Training and Development Producer for production company Lupus Films, Animation Production Liaison Executive at ScreenSkills, and the Animation Programmer for Edinburgh International Film Festival from 2020-2024. She has produced projects for cultural organisations including CAMP Films, The Bureau, Forma Arts, CVAN South East, and the British Council.
She sits on the Advisory Board of Animation Alliance UK, and was previously a Trustee of film and photography charity Four Corners, and an advisor and shorts selector for Underwire Festival.