Alumna chooses to pursue multi-faceted creative career choices

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Abigail White graduated with a BA in English and Drama in 2014 and has channelled her love for arts since. After graduation she chose to pursue a creative career.

She wrote a book “Before I turn 21” to support graduates with insights into her experiences and to share knowledge they may have seek before joining university. 

She also had the opportunity to work backstage in wardrobe for West End shows and at the Olivier awards, as well as working with a charity visiting children's hospital wards in London to entertain young patients as a singer. In 2020 she started her own small candle business. 

Abigail is currently a marketing manager for a West End Musical and continues to sing for the charity as well as making candles for her small business Makes Scents Candles. 

Abigail said: “My graduate story is not the story I expected, I never planned to write a book, to work off stage, to find a way to sing professionally in a career I'd never heard of or start a small business, nor did I think I'd be capable, but Loughborough gave me the foundation.”

Check out Abigail's candle collection.

Good job, Abigail!