Abby Hampton’s theatrical life began as a child performing in children’s and community music theatre in her hometown of Adelaide. Upon graduating school, she was awarded the Adelaide Festival Centre Arts Award for Passion and Dedication to the Arts (2012). In 2014 Abby played Juliet in the Adelaide University Theatre Guild production of Romeo and Juliet (Dir. Megan Dansie), for which she received an Adelaide Theatre Guide Award nomination for Best Female Actor. A trained singer with Adelaide Fringe and Adelaide Cabaret Festival credits, Abby was mentored by David Campbell as a part of the High School Cabaret Program in 2011. Then in 2017, she participated in the GreenRoom Speakeasy Series at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival with mentorship from Amelia Ryan and Michael Griffiths.

  Abby attended Flinders University’s Drama Centre graduating in 2018 with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours). During her training Abby performed as Julia Gibbs in Our Town (Dir. Tiffany Lyndall-Knight); Natasha in Three Sisters (Dir. Tom Healey); Clea in A Single Act (Dir. David Mealor); Woman in Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (Dir. Catherine Fitzgerald); and Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar (Dir. Nescha Jelk). Abby also completed Pochinko Clown training with Hew Parham, Stage Combat with Ruth Fallon and a week-long Artist Residency with UK physical theatre company Frantic Assembly from the UK. In 2018 Abby was fortunate to spend a semester abroad studying at Columbia College Chicago in the USA. While at Columbia College she studied Feldenkrais, Solo Performance, Dramaturgy, Dance and Shakespeare.

Abby has worked and trained on multiple occasions with Adelaide company Restless Dance Theatre. She performed in their 2017 season of Intimate Space (Adelaide Festival), which was nominated for a Helpmann Award. Then in 2019, she returned to work with Restless on tour to South Korea to present Intimate Space with local artists (Seoul Street Arts Festival). 

  In 2019 Abby was a recipient of the Helpmann Academy supported Elevate Mentorship Program for which she worked with playwright Dr Sarah Peters to learn techniques in verbatim theatre and undergo the creative development of new verbatim work. Her verbatim play titled BacktoBack completed its first creative development and presentation in 2019. 

Abby relocated to Melbourne in 2020, where she continues to work as a freelance actor, theatre-maker and voice artist. In 2023 she completed a Masters of Theatre (Dramaturgy) at the Victorian College of the Arts. At VCA, she was a dramaturg on the Third Year Actors production of Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill directed by Maude Davey. Abby was a dramaturg on two new writing projects by Masters of Theatre (Writing) students; Tangles by Peter Mountford and Ratbags by Matt Nixon. She completed a dramaturgical secondment at State Theatre Company of South Australia on The Normal Heart directed by Dean Bryant. Abby was the dramaturg on The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, a co-production between State Theatre Company of South Australia and Sydney Theatre Company, directed by Mitchell Butel.

As a performer she most recently completed two years touring nationally, and internationally to the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with That Science Gang in The Alphabet of Awesome Science as Professor Lexi Con.

Abby is honoured to currently work as a Captain Starlight with the Starlight Foundation at The Royal Children’s Hospital.

Abby is a proud MEAA member.