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abs wilson is a playwright/songwriter. Most recently, she’s a 2025 Jonathan Larson grant winner and 2024 Richard Rodgers Award recipient, as well as: selected writer for the Weston Works commission (2026),  selected writer for the Vinyard Arts Project Residency (2026) and Orchard Project Summer Series (2025, 2026), recipient of the Lucille Lortel Theatre’s 121 Project grant (2025), selected writer for the NAMT Festival of New Musicals (2024), selected writer for the Eugene O'Neill NMTC (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, Adelphi 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, OVERTHINKING, KELLY NOWAK, THE LOOKOUT, TOUGH GUY, PROXY, 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)​