Abiola Abrams

Cast · Director · Writer

Born

July 29, 1976 · New York City, New York, USA

Abiola Abrams knew that she wanted to make movies after a 5th grade class trip to the Museum of TV & Radio. The product of mostly single sex education at The Brearley School in Manhattan, Abiola's first foray into media was as a member of a feminist rap and slam poetry group when she was 15. The group named Females Beyond Control drew praise from other young people in her community but extreme criticism from her headmistress. The powers that be at Sarah Lawrence College were more encouraging however and Abiola quickly found herself writing and directing theatrical projects. Her first successful project as a professional media-maker was as producer-writer of Off-Off-Broadway hit Goddess City when she was only in her early 20s. Spurred into action after 9-11-01, Abiola became a full time director. In 2004, she and her family lost 2 of her mother's sisters unexpectedly to cancer within a 6 month period. This led her to realize that she could no longer wait to launch the empowerment movement that she envisioned for women and The Goddess Factory was born. Appropriately, her talent has not only been recognized by Ms. Magazine, but by Cosmo as well. Currently Abiola is curating the Until The Violence Stops Film Festival for theater activist Eve Ensler and directing a feminist hip hop film produced by Candida Royalle.