Ben Abbott

Theatre Lecturer

Contact

• Email: beabbott@calpoly.edu

Education

• MFA Playwrighting Hollins University 
• BA U.C. Berkely, Theatre Performance Studies 
• PCPA Acting Conservatory

Course Summary

• TH 210 - Introduction to History 

About Ben Abbott

Ben Abbott is an actor and playwright. He attended the acting conservatory at the Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) in Santa Maria, California and earned a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from U.C. Berkeley. He is receiving an MFA in Playwriting from Hollins University. Abbott has performed in theatres around the country, including Utah Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Festival Theatre, Hale Centre Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, SLO Rep, and The Great American Melodrama. As a playwright, his plays have been produced at professional, community, university, and high school theaters. His plays include Grave Mistakes: A Haunted Rom-Com, Shut Up Sherlock, The Piratess, Buddies, Nuptial Mass, Murder Mystery, Mystery Murder, and Backward.