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abs wilson is a 24-year-old playwright, lyricist, and poet originally from Minnesota and now based in NYC. She’s a recipient of the 2024 Richard Rodgers Award, Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference winner (2024), selected writer for the musical theater Rhinebeck Writer's Retreat (2024), selected writer for the Syracuse New Works New Voices program (2024), Write Out Loud Contest winner for her and Veronica Mansour's song “Runaway Girl" (2023), National Musical Theater Conference Finalist (2023), NAMT finalist (2023), recipient of the Vanguard Theater New Works Festival Commission (2023), THE SEVEN New Works winner (2023), finalist for the Olney Theater Center Vanguard Arts Fund (2023), featured on the NAMT playlist, semi-finalist for SheNYC (2022), and finalist for the David Einhorn Prize (2022). She’s had work done with Theatre Barn at Playwright’s Horizons, Paper Kraine, the Tank, the Brick, Fusion Theater, Syracuse University, and St. Olaf College, with songs performed at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, the Composers Concordance Marathon, and a play published in Some Scripts Literary Magazine. She got her MFA from NYU Tisch’s Musical Theater Writing Program and her passion for theater at the National Theater Institute’s 2020 Summer Intensive theatermaking program. abs is a member of the Dramatist's Guild & ASCAP. Past Works: I CRAVE THE HEAT, As Long as the Light, SPACE OVEN, All We Know of Love & Fire, HE DID IT., Dutch Kassidy & the Skydance Guy, ASTRONOMER / STAR-WEAVER., DEAD ANY WAY. Current Works: LIGHTHOUSE, CREATURES OF FEAR, Swamp Nocturne, UGGO.

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She also knows maybe literally every animal fact ever, so.

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(All photos of me taken by me besides the banner one that's by Addie Symonds thank you Addie)​