Abigail Savage

Abigail Savage

Abigail Savage is an American actress, and sound editor. She played inmate Gina Murphy on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black. As of July 2015, she had twelve acting credits, and seventy-five sound credits. Savage has had several New York City theater roles.

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Summary Abigail SavageAbigail Savage is an American actress, and sound editor. She played inmate Gina Murphy on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black. As of July 2015, she had twelve acting credits, and seventy-five sound credits including Half Nelson, Inside Job, Sleepwalk with Me, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, and Lee Daniel’s Precious. Savage was a theatre major and graduated from Williams College, a liberal arts college in Massachusetts, in 1998. She got interested in the sound editing industry to support her between acting jobs, and fell in love with the work.

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. Savage has had several New York City theater roles: Dido, Queen of Carthage at The Ohio Theatre, Demon Baby at the Ohio Theater, and The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem at The Connelly Theater. In 2017, the cast won the Screen Actor’s Guild Award for Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series; they had previously won two and three SAG Awards.