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Abigail Savage

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Abigail Savage
BornJune 26[1]
New York City
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🏳️ CitizenshipUnited States
🏫 EducationWilliams College (theatre major, 1998)
💼 Occupation
📆 Years active  2000–current
Known forActing, sound editing
Notable workOrange Is the New Black
👩 Spouse(s)Caitlin McElroy
🌐 WebsiteInstaGram.com/ThatSavage937

Abigail Savage is an American actress, and sound editor. She played inmate Gina Murphy on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, as well as roles in Brian De Palma’s Redacted (2007), Lee Daniel’s Precious (2009), and on Law & Order SVU.[2][3] As of July 2015, she had twelve acting credits, and seventy-five sound credits including Half Nelson (2006), Inside Job (2010), Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk with Me (2012), Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (2013), as well as all of Ramin Bahrani’s feature films.[3][4]

Early life and education[edit]

Abigail Savage was born in New York City to Tereze Glück (October 20, 1945 – December 16, 2018), vice president of Citibank for her entire career of over thirty years, and also a fiction writer.[5][6][7] Glück bought a home in 2015 in Cherry Grove, a hamlet on Fire Island, where Savage would stay during her breaks.[8] Glück’s sister is Nobel laureate poet Louise Glück.[5] Her grandmother, Beatrice Glück (December 9, 1909-May 11, 2011) went to Wellesley College in Massachusetts in a time when it was uncommon for women to attend college, and majored in French.[9]

Her father is an audiophile and started her interests in sound technology.[10] She would go to his apartment when she was twelve and he would show off his system and classical records, including the turntable for vinyl records.[10] He was always upgrading his system.[10]

Savage was a theatre major and graduated from Williams College, a liberal arts college in Massachusetts, in 1998.[11]

Career[edit]

When Savage graduated from Williams College, the head of the drama department advised, “Be patient!”, it’s the same advice Savage gave to other aspiring women in the acting industry.[12][13] Savage has had several New York City theater roles: Dido, Queen of Carthage at The Ohio Theatre (2001);[14] Demon Baby at The Ohio Theater (2002);[15] Silence at The Ohio Theater (2002);[16] Seven in One Blow or The Brave Little Kid at the Axis Theatre (2004);[17][18] Hospital 2005 at the Axis Theatre (2005); and a mathematical savant in The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem at The Connelly Theater (2000).[19][20]

Savage is a sound designer, and sound editor.[21] She got interested in the sound editing industry to support her between acting jobs, and fell in love with the work.[4] Her roommate in the summer after college complained of having too many internships, one for a post production sound studio.[3] She did sound for the senior production at college so took the position.[3] She says that her sound designer work compliments her acting as it teaches the importance of consistency in takes, and handling the props the same way each time.[3] One of the companies she works for is Dig It Audio a “boutique audio mix and post production house in New York City for film, gaming and television”.[10]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Savage's unique Hollywood resume also includes a long list of sound editing credits ...includ[ing] the 2010 financial documentary Inside Job (for which she shared a Motion Picture Sound Editors nomination)”.[22] As of July 2015, she has seventy-five sound credits.[4] Her credits include: Game 6 (2005),[23] Man Push Cart (2005),[24] Half Nelson (2006),[4] The Last Winter (2006),[25] Joshua (2007),[26] Where God Left His Shoes (2007),[27] Sugar (2008),[28][29] Chop Shop (2008),[30] Goodbye Solo (2008),[31] Plastic Bag (2009),[3] Inside Job (2010),[32] The Tillman Story (2010),[33] The Greater Good (2011),[34] The Kite (2011),[35] At Any Price (2012),[36] Dear Mandela (2012),[37] Sleepwalk With Me (2012),[38] Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (2013),[4] Ivory Tower (2014),[39] Mississippi Grind (2015),[40] (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies (2015),[41] Complete Unknown (2016),[42] First Monday in May (2016),[21] Don’t Think Twice (2016),[43] and Thank You for Playing (2015).[44]

Savage joined the cast of Jenji Kohan’s Netflix series Orange Is the New Black in 2013 as “kitchen-bound” inmate Gina Murphy at a minimum-security women’s prison.[22][45] She said of the role that she had worked for years “to get anywhere, somewhere, before Orange fell into her lap.”[12] She originally auditioned for the role of Nicky Nichols but that went to Natasha Lyonne; but the producers found the Gina role for her.[3] The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison.[45] In the fifth season, the show had a prison riot and it was ended by a correctional emergency response team (CERT) who “dragged inmates outside and loaded them onto buses”, her character surrendered with a handful of other inmates.[46] Her character was transferred from Litchfield to FDC Cleveland in Ohio along with a number of other inmates.[47][48] In 2017 the cast won the Screen Actor Guild (SAG) Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series; they had previously won for season’s two and three.[49][50] In 2018 the cast was nominated for the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance By An Ensemble In A Comedy Series.[51]

Personal life[edit]

Savage is Jewish.[52] Savage is married to Caitlin McElroy, with whom she has a daughter.[53][54][55] They eloped and married in a tuxedo shop in Bennington, Vermont, before same-sex marriages became legal in their home state of New York in 2011.[lower-alpha 1][1] The shop owner was the presiding justice of the peace.[1]

She is the niece of Nobel laureate poet Louise Glück.[5]

Acting filmography[edit]

Awards and nominations[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ Same-sex marriage in Vermont has been legal since September 1, 2009.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "4 LGBTQ Couples on the Importance of Queer Love". www.advocate.com. 2019-03-18. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  2. ↑ "Exclusive Interview : Abigail Savage AKA Gina Murphy from OITNB". November 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Exclusive Interview : Abigail Savage AKA Gina Murphy from OITNB". Kobsupang Robertson. 2013-11-06. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Orange Is the New Black: The 20 Craziest Real-Life Backstories". TVGuide.com. 2015-07-08. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "TEREZE GLUCK (1945 - 2018) - Obituary". www.legacy.com. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  6. ↑ "Abigail Savage (@thatsavage937) • Instagram photos and videos". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  7. ↑ "Tereze Gluck Obituary - Hewlett, NY". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  8. ↑ "Rose's View (Cherry Grove)". Fire Island News. 2015-07-19. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  9. ↑ "A zest for life: Beatrice Glück of Woodmere dies at 101". Herald Community Newspapers. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 "Featured Artist System: Abigail Savage, Actress/Sound Editor, Orange is the New Black". SVS. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  11. ↑ "Arts Stories". Arts. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "10 Actresses on How to Break Into Hollywood". The Cut. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  13. ↑ "Abigail Savage profile". Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  14. ↑ "Columbia Daily Spectator 2 February 2001 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  15. ↑ N.Y.), Clubbed Thumb (New York (2007). Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb. Playscripts, Inc. ISBN 978-0-9709046-2-1. Search this book on
  16. ↑ Gelder, Lawrence Van (2002-06-26). "THEATER REVIEW; Punishing A Norman Princess In England (Published 2002)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  17. ↑ "Wednesday: The Socratic Method "Know thyself"–or at least". www.ourtownny.com. Retrieved 2020-10-11. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help); C1 control character in |title= at position 46 (help)
  18. ↑ Sharp, Randy; Company, Axis (2007). Seven in One Blow, Or, The Brave Little Kid. Dramatists Play Service Inc. ISBN 978-0-8222-2179-1. Search this book on
  19. ↑ "Abigail Savage theatre profile". www.abouttheartists.com. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  20. ↑ Weber, Bruce (2000-04-27). "THEATER REVIEW; M (Mathematics) + E (Expostulation) - C (Clarity) = ? (Published 2000)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Schager, Nick (2016-04-13). "Film Review: 'First Monday in May'". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 "Rep Sheet Roundup: 'Mad Men' Alum Aaron Staton Signs With UTA | Hollywood Reporter". www.hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  23. ↑ Koehler, Robert (2005-01-26). "Game 6". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  24. ↑ Weissberg, Jay (2005-09-14). "Man Push Cart". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  25. ↑ Harvey, Dennis (2006-09-20). "The Last Winter". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  26. ↑ McCarthy, Todd (2007-01-24). "Joshua". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  27. ↑ Scheib, Ronnie (2007-05-21). "Where God Left His Shoes". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  28. ↑ Roy, Charles-Stéphane (2009). "Sugar : la gloire dans le détour / Sugar, États-Unis 2008, 120 minutes". Séquences : La revue de cinéma (in français) (261): 44. ISSN 0037-2412.
  29. ↑ McCarthy, Todd (2008-01-23). "Sugar". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 "Abigail Savage | TV Guide". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  31. ↑ "GOODBYE SOLO | Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani | Independent Lens | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  32. ↑ Nelson, Rob (2010-05-15). "Inside Job". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  33. ↑ Harvey, Dennis (2010-01-26). "The Tillman Story". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  34. ↑ Anderson, John (2011-10-16). "The Greater Good". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  35. ↑ Weissberg, Jay (2011-02-15). "The Kite". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  36. ↑ Chang, Justin (2012-08-31). "At Any Price". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  37. ↑ Scheib, Ronnie (2012-09-20). "Dear Mandela". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  38. ↑ Debruge, Peter (2012-01-26). "Sleepwalk With Me". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  39. ↑ Chang, Justin (2014-06-13). "Film Review: 'Ivory Tower'". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  40. ↑ Chang, Justin (2015-01-25). "Film Review: 'Mississippi Grind'". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  41. ↑ Harvey, Dennis (2015-05-01). "Film Review: '(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies'". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  42. ↑ Lodge, Guy (2016-01-26). "Sundance Film Review: 'Complete Unknown'". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  43. ↑ Harvey, Dennis (2016-03-14). "Film Review: 'Don't Think Twice'". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  44. ↑ Chang, Justin (2016-03-22). "Film Review: 'Thank You for Playing'". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-09. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 Fernandez, Maria Elena (2019-07-30). "How Orange Is the New Black Said Goodbye to the Litchfield Inmates". Vulture. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  46. ↑ Berman, Judy (2018-07-26). "What to Remember Before You Watch 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 6 (Published 2018)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  47. ↑ "Here's How Orange Is the New Black Said Goodbye to Your Favorite Characters | TV Guide". TVGuide.com. 2019-07-28. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  48. ↑ "Everyone Who Made a Surprise Return in Orange Is the New Black Season 7 | TV Guide". TVGuide.com. 2019-07-27. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  49. ↑ Grobar, Erik Pedersen,Joe Utichi,Matt; Pedersen, Erik; Utichi, Joe; Grobar, Matt (2017-01-30). "SAG Awards: 'Hidden Figures' Wins Ensemble Prize; Two For 'Fences': Complete Winners List". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
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  51. ↑ 51.0 51.1 "Screen Actors Guild: The nominees and winners for Outstanding Performance By An Ensemble In A Comedy Series - Los Angeles Times". latimes.com. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
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  53. ↑ Abigail Savage Tweet Savage, Abigail. Twitter.com. Published August 25, 2016. Accessed August 2016.
  54. ↑ Abigail Savage Tweet Savage, Abigail. Twitter.com. Published August 6, 2016. Accessed August 2016.
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