about
Abby Sherlock is an award-winning game creator, voice actor, and on-camera host.
She holds an MFA in Game Design from the University of Southern California and began her career in marketing, events, and influencer strategy at Wizards of the Coast, Geek & Sundry, and Nerdist, later serving as Community Coordinator for Blizzard Entertainment's collegiate esports organization, Tespa, before moving into development. She most recently spent nearly four years in games production at Riot Games.
As Game Director, her title Heirloom (2020) won Favorite Game Developed by a Female Team at the Women in Games Global Awards and was shortlisted for a Games for Change award. Her thesis game Skin Deep won Best Game at the Feminist Media Festival. Penrose Station, which she cast, won the New Media Writing Prize. Titles she's developed have hit the front page of Twitch — three times.
As a performer, she was the lead female actor in the BAFTA-nominated VR game Blocks and voiced Mary Elizabeth in Walden, a game, winner of the Off-Broadway Award for Best Indie Game.
On camera, she's been a season host for the Overwatch League's Vancouver Titans on Sportsnet, hosted at PAX East and West, GDC, and the final E3, and spoke at the GDC Narrative Summit on theatre, story, and empathy in games — one of the youngest speakers to hit the program.
She's a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, a BAFTA Games Awards Multiplayer Jurist, and a Game Awards Future Class alum.
Before all that, she was born and raised in South Carolina: a child musical theatre actor and closet fantasy/sci-fi nerd, doubling by day as a preppy cheerleader and varsity lacrosse player. She couldn't read until second grade, and what finally cracked it open was American Girl dolls and Percy Jackson. She's had a book in her bag ever since. Her biggest joy is mentoring the next generation of game creatives, and she is very passionate about Siamese cats and golden retrievers.
In her free time she plays JRPGs and action-adventure games, walks while listening to library audiobooks, watches period drama films, gets humbled by yoga and pilates (even after losing 110+ lbs), and spends time with her large Canadian-Texan family. (She is technically a nepo baby: her cousin Tiffany voiced Kaede in CLAMP's Angelic Layer and gave her the DVD set in the early 2000s. That's the whole inheritance. Worked, though.)
She will talk at length about why theatre and video games are the two most powerful empathy machines humans have ever built. Please don't get her started unless you mean it.
awards & recognition
BAFTA Game Awards Multiplayer Jury
April 2026 · British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Chi Omega 30 Under 30, Inaugural Class
May 2025 · Chi Omega Fraternity
AIAS Girls For Games Scholar
August 2024 · Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Foundation
Top Women in Gaming & Esports — Production Pacesetter
July 2024 · Cynopsis Media & Tempest Awards
Forbes 30 Under 30 in Games
November 2023 · Forbes Magazine
BAFTA Connect Member
June 2023 · British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Game Awards Future Class
November 2022 · The Game Awards
SPG100 Honoree
March 2022 · She Plays Games
JBL Quantum Changemakers Winner
September 2021 · 1,000 Dreams Fund
Student Portfolio Award Winner
August 2021 · Women in Games Global
ABKAspring Women in Games Scholar
February 2021 · Activision Blizzard King
Women in Games Ambassador
July 2020 · Women in Games Global
Girls Make Games Fellow
March 2020 · Girls Make Games
IGDA Foundation Velocity Recipient
January 2020 · IGDA Foundation