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abs wilson is a playwright, songwriter, and educator. Most recently, she’s a 2025 Jonathan Larson grant winner,  Richard Rodgers Award recipient (2024), recipient of the Lucille Lortel Theatre’s 121 Project grant (2025), selected writer for the Orchard Project Summer Series (2025) selected writer for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals (2024), selected writer for the Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference (2024), and selected writer for the Rhinebeck Writer's Retreat (2024). She’s had work developed with numerous organizations, including the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Theatre Barn, Kayenta Theater, Paper Kraine, Fusion Theater, Vanguard Theater, and colleges across the US including Syracuse University, Millikin University, and St. Olaf College. Her and Veronica Mansour's song “Runaway Girl" was a winner of Taylor Louderman’s Write Out Loud Songwriting Contest (2023), and her play “I CRAVE THE HEAT” is published in Some Scripts Literary Magazine. She holds an MFA from NYU Tisch’s Musical Theater Writing Program, and is a member of the Dramatist's Guild, ASCAP, and Maestra. Current Works: LIGHTHOUSE, SWAMP SONG, KELLY NOWAK, ANIMAL FACTS, and The Butterfly People.

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

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(Also sometimes she's trying to figure out photography/videography etc etc so that's all this)​