Who is Abby?

Before I knew how to write, I used to dictate stories to my mom and demand that she read to me two hours a day. I was seven when I wrote (and illustrated!) my first book: Why the Virginia Opossum Plays Dead. I was hooked. 

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As I grew older, I discovered that I liked to write things that I could see: plays and screenplays. I studied Theater and Performance and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, taking as many writing classes as I could while devouring knowledge about these mediums. I graduated summa cum laude and won the Theater and Performance Studies Award and Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize for my play Olga's Strike. Olga's Strike was also a Semifinalist in the 2022 Jewish Plays Project. I frequently worked with Fire Escape Films and mentored as Script Coordinator from 2019-2021. 

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I'm working on several feature films. My recent work tells the stories of difficult women with a comic edge. I was selected as a Yonder Window Ascending Playwright for 2022. I was the Assistant Director and Associate Dramaturg of Court Theatre's The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice. I currently work as an assistant in the new live action department of LAIKA, the studio best known for Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings. I have also worked in the MP Lit department at Verve, as a script reader for Slated, and as an assistant for Young Jean Lee. 

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I'm currently obsessed with Succession and Ted Lasso. Other favorite shows include Breaking Bad, Bojack Horseman, and Avatar the Last Airbender (which all have the same tone, right?) I grew up on Lord on the Rings and Star Wars and am a devoted fan of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere. 

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Hit me up if you want to chat story!