Abigail Tarttelin

Abigail Tarttelin is an awardwinning author screenwriter actress and musician She grew up in North East England and has been involved in theatre since the age of 8 At 14 she became one of the first 100 members of the National Academy of Gifted and Talented Youth labeling her academic abilities within the top 5 of the population She later gained 10 A GCSEs and 5 A Grade A Levels At sixteen Abigail trained with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and went on to play a lead role in their 2007 season Abigail then studied Acting For Film at the New York Film Academy school in France acting in over 20 short films Of these films La Geode by New York artist Theresa Hong appeared in the Official Selection of the New York LA and Strasbourg Short Film Festivals Stress a short film by artist Evita Robinson was also well received Abigail also worked with Washington DC design company Dissident Display on a film project at this time In 2008 Abigail shot for Philip Pullmans The Butterfly Tattoo an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Philip Pullman author of The Golden Compass which was released in UK US cinemas in 2009 At this time Abigail also shot for British gangster film Jack Says which was the last film of English actor and treasure Mike Reid and as the three lead characters in Schrodingers Girl a science fiction feature film concerning quantum tunneling and crossdimensional travel which premiered in San Diego California in 2009 in the Official Selection of the ComicCon Independent Film Festival She was named a One To Watch in 2009 by Moviescope Magazine for her body of work As a writer she is best known for Golden Boy a grippingly innovative comingofage novel with a radical nonbinary prointersex message Autostraddle Golden Boy is the winner of an Alex Award from the American Library Association a LAMBDA Literary Award Finalist for Best LGBT Debut a Booklist Top Ten First Novel of 2013 a School Library Journal Best Book of 2013 and is published in eight languages Also a screenwriter Abigail has served as a juror for the British Independent Film Awards and is currently working on the Duck SoupBBC Films adaptation of Golden Boy Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian The Independent Glamour Phoenix Oh Comely and The Huffington Post She is the recipient of awards from The Authors Foundation and The K Blundell Trust in Great Britain Abigail lives in London and enjoys traveling and working worldwide