Abigail Mai Howells is a New Zealand comedian, actor, and writer.
15 Facts About Abby Howells
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Abby Howells was the winner of the Billy T Award in 2023.
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Abby Howells was born in and grew up in Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Abby Howells attended an all-girls high school, where she acted in school productions of The Wizard of Oz as the Cowardly Lion and in Seussical as Horton the Elephant.
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Abby Howells received a bachelor of arts in film and media studies from the University of Otago, and a masters in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington's International Institute of Modern Letters in 2014.
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Abby Howells was a founding member of Discharge, a female comedy collective.
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In 2014, Abby Howells wrote Crossbow Cat, which won the Auckland Festival's Judges' Choice and People's Choice awards, and audio play The Crash in 2015, which aired on Radio New Zealand.
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Abby Howells presented her solo show Glocknid: Dwarf Warrior in 2014, which won the Best Newcomer Award at the 2015 Wellington International Comedy Festival.
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Abby Howells portrayed Beatrix in Trick of the Light Theatre's Beards Beards Beards, which toured the United Kingdom, and her play Attila the Hun was part of the 2017 Young and Hungry Festival.
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Abby Howells acted in Fold by Jo Randerson in 2018, and The Bald Soprano in 2019.
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Abby Howells's show HarleQueen, inspired by her experiences as a woman in comedy, won the Director's Award at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in 2021; she performed the show at Edinburgh Fringe.
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On television, Abby Howells has appeared on 7 Days, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, Shortland Street, and Taskmaster New Zealand.
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Abby Howells acted in the Netflix film The Royal Treatment.
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Abby Howells has been a guest on Backyard Stories with Claudia Nankervis and The Worst Idea of All Time.
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Abby Howells has cited Blackadder and Jerry Seinfeld as influences.