about

ABBY HRICIK (she/her) leads her life with fierce curiosity and kindness.

Her Montessori education and South Carolina upbringing feed into her artistic life. Abby’s deep-rooted philosophy is to approach everything with professionalism, organization, and commitment. However, she believes life is not to be lived unquestioned — check out her NYU TEDx Talk, The Case Against 5:00PM. 

Before making NYC her home, Abby made her professional acting debut at age 12 in Village Repertory Company’s dystopian production of The Nether (Iris). She attended Long Lake Camp for the Arts for six summers and has performed in over fifty stage productions. Most recently, she was the female lead in a Princeton University thesis film, Prufrock. Outside of acting, Abby has over 15 years of dance training in ballet, tap, and jazz and is a current dance company member with TAPFUSION. Her work is as varied as it is dynamic. 

Abby’s design and editorial work has been recognized as some of the best in the Southeast by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, SC Scholastic Press Association, and Quill & Scroll Awards. She currently interns at Accessories Council, assisting with Ac Magazine and NoMad Magazine publications. She served as Chief of Design of the Baedeker Travel Magazine (2024), Head Designer of the Future Fashion Group Zine for two editions (2022-2023), and published three, 200-page yearbooks with Wando High School’s nationally recognized Legend yearbook staff (2018-2021). Her most notable work of the “Eukaryotic Cell board game project” debuted in 2013 and was designed entirely on Microsoft Digital Image 2006.  

This past summer, Abby wrote, starred in, and produced her first experimental short film, In A Stitch, while abroad in Madrid, Spain. She is an associate producer at Pinoy Cinematic Universe and is writer and actor in their upcoming social media comedy series, CostCutters. Additionally, Abby works as one of three Transfer Student Coordinators for NYU Welcome, serves as President of the Tisch Tap Collective, volunteers weekly with Literacy Partners, and is a proud Ambacebador for Guayakí Yerba Mate.