Who is this girl?
Abby Erff is a New York City–based multi-hyphenate artist (actor / writer, comedian). Her obsession with storytelling began at age five when she played a truly alarming ghost in a community theatre production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Ichabod Crane remains hot).
She is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied Drama at the Atlantic Acting School and fully committed to comedy, writing, and emotional oversharing as an art form. Her work is driven by sharp observation, neurosis, desire, and a proudly vulgar point of view. Abby writes across theater, nonfiction prose, and satirical screenplays, often interrogating intimacy, identity, and the humiliations that shape a person.
She is known for her one-woman show To My Husband and as a house team member at The People’s Improv Theater (Clown Car). She is currently training at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC. This spring, Abby will debut her first full-length play, Cracked, co-created with Dakota Bobadilla, premiering at the New York Theater Festival in May 2026. Most recently Abby had her Off Broadway Debut at The WP Theater, playing Florence in The Betrothed this July.
Picture of Abby as Kennedy in the NYU Tisch Broke People Festival Production of And So I Killed The Leviathan.
baby’s first step and repeat….
“The highlight of the production is probably the most unexpected character, an illiterate, feral nun brought to life by Abby Erff in an absolutely brilliant performance. If this were a sitcom, she would need her own spin off. ”
“Erff is delightfully weird as Florence .”
