Abbi Greenland

Abbi Greenland is a writer for stage and screen, an award-winning theatre maker and the co-founder of the acclaimed theatre company RashDash alongside Helen Goalen.

For over fifteen years, RashDash has created bold, genre-defying performance work combining movement, text and live music to interrogate the modern world through a fiercely feminist lens. Their critically acclaimed body of work has been described as “profound and extraordinary” (The Guardian), “sly, smart and loud” (The Independent) and filled with “punk rock energy” (Time Out). At the centre of the company’s distinctive voice are collaborators and creative powerhouses Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen. 

Together, Abbi and Helen have developed a theatrical language rooted in physicality, intimacy, radical honesty and female experience, exploring women being powerful, strange, vulnerable, lonely and unruly. Their latest piece, There Were Goddesses, will appear in Francesca Moody's Shedinburgh season at the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe and the Young Vic. While RashDash continues to create original work for the stage, the pair are now expanding their collaboration into television and film, developing their first slate of short-form and feature-length screen projects.

Alongside her work with RashDash, Abbi is increasingly working independently as a playwright. Her play TALKING TO BOYS was shortlisted for the 2025 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and she is currently under commission with Paines Plough.

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

RashDash credits include: THERE WERE GODDESSES (Shedinburgh/Young Vic/Francesca Moody Productions), 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.