avery rabbitt

Currently psychotherapist, cross-disciplinary artist

about

Hi, I'm Avery! I like to write, sing, and make all kinds of things. I'm a creative arts psychotherapist based in Wales. I write playful, heartfelt, panpsychic stories rooted in queer and neurodiverse imaginations. Having grown up on a religious homestead in the rural Pacific Northwest USA, I often explore themes of deconstruction and inter-species kinship. I’m currently developing a musical with composer Janna Graham. Titled Good Thinkin', it's a puppet musical about lesbians, land, and a dog named Hank. I'm an artist-in-residence for The Tonic Review. I currently sing in the National Chorus of Wales and have recorded several choral projects with Cantori NY and The Bach Choir London. I'm half of the pop duo skyfrog, and we're currently recording an album. We'll release our first single and music video, Space Traveler Companion, in the coming months. Thanks for dropping by!

skills

creative writing

playwrighting

experimental writing

sculptural books

performing literature

theatre

darkroom photography

singing (musical theatre, classical, pop)

songwriting

illustration

work

Good Thinkin'

A puppet musical about lesbians, land, and a dog named Hank. Music & Lyrics by Janna Graham Book & Lyrics by Avery Rabbitt

Feature in D!RTY DŸKE MAGAZINE

a flash of creative nonfiction

The Tonic Review, Issue 04: Structure

The Tonic Review, Issue 3: The Land

The Tonic Review, Issue 001, Ed. 2: Memory

the kin bible

the kin bible is an art object which details a work of memoir as an emergent creation myth. It uses the creation myth as a means to explore how inter-generational processes can inform a creative process. Layers of text are extracted from each fold of the tunnel book corresponding to the days of creation.

BBC National Chorus of Wales

I sing in the BBC National Chorus of Wales. We perform with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales across the United Kingdom for communities and BBC programs like the Proms. My favorite repertoire with the BBC NCW so far has been Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms.

Drama Therapy Review - Disability, Chronic Illness and Debility Justice in Drama Therapy: Global- Political Perspectives, Apr 2024 | Slumgullion: A neuroqueer long-distance hiker’s questions about landscapes in drama therapeutic relationality

I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2016. In this episodic essay, I offer descriptions of personal encounters to contemplate specific lands and drama therapeutic landscapes. I am taking curious, meandering footsteps towards a neuroqueer, ecological drama therapy praxis. Sesame drama therapy often relies on imagination to offer itself to the conscious world, but ecosomatic experience can offer a ‘co-construct[ed]’ subjectivity, reframing Merleau-Ponty’s ‘flesh’ as a ‘relation of reversibility’ between ‘the seer and the seen’, the external and the internal – an ecological dynamic in which several liberatory frameworks take root.

Cantori New York

I sang with Cantori New York under Mark Shapiro. We recorded Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's piece Found Again (up for Grammy consideration for Best Choral Performance), debuted Caroline Shaw's Ochre, and performed with Greek National Opera musicians for the first international presentation of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bleat at the 61st New York Film Festival. My favorite piece to sing in this choir with such adventurous and expansive programming was Aaron Jay Kernis' Ecstatic Meditations.

self portrait 2025

animated Janna portrait 2024

The Bach Choir London

While I sang with the Bach Choir under David Hill, we got to perform at Richard Quinn's 2021 London Fashion Week show, record Blackford's new orchestration of the Verdi Requiem, I sang Pilot's Wife in the St. Matthew Passion at Southbank Centre, and we recorded with Joe Hisaishi. My favorite pieces were Hisaishi's symphonic arrangements and Ralph Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony.

The Bacchae (Johanna Warren)

One of the coolest things I just happened to get to be a part of! From a new musical adaptation of Euripides' ancient tragedy. Book by J Landon Marcus. Music by Johanna Warren & J Landon Marcus. Originally premiered on October 13, 2021 via The Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies "Reading Greek Tragedy Online."