avery rabbitt

Currently psychotherapist, cross-disciplinary artist

about

Hi, I'm Avery! I like to write, sing, draw, make books, and sculpt things with papier-mache. I'm a creative arts therapist based in Wales. I write playful, heartfelt, panpsychic stories rooted in queer and neurodiverse imaginations. Multidisciplinary arts allow me to combine languages– non-verbal, text, music, image. The way I make things is shaped by how I play outside. 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 The Mysterious Cricket, it's a puppet musical about felt histories, lesbians, and land ownership. I'm an artist-in-residence for The Tonic Review. I sing in the National Chorus of Wales and have recorded several choral projects with Cantori NY and The Bach Choir. 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

self portrait 2025

animated Janna portrait 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.

the kin bible

the kin bible is an experimental art object which details an emergent creation myth through experimental prose and vignettes of auto-fiction. 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. The text is going through final edits; the art object is complete; i'm currently developing a narrator character who will wear a mask and perform the kin bible on audio and video.

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.

Cantori New York

I sang with Cantori New York under Mark Shapiro. We recorded mighty 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.

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.