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Abigail Katz is a New York-based dramaturg and theater educator, and serves Associate Producer for Atlantic Theater Company where she has been on the artistic staff since 2009. In her time there she expanded Atlantic’s play development program by creating the Amplified Reading Series as well as the Launch Commission for early career writers. She has been a dramaturg for several plays at Atlantic as well as for projects at Native Voices at the Autry, New Dramatists, the Kennedy Center, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. She was previously Literary Associate and Dramaturg for The Civilians, where she worked on productions Brooklyn at Eye Level, This Beautiful City (The Vineyard Theatre) and Paris Commune (The Public Theater). She was also Producer for Voice & Vision, a company devoted to developing women theater artists. She teaches at the College of Performing Arts at The New School and has taught in the MFA program at Columbia University School of the Arts and SUNY Stony Brook/Southampton. Abigail received her MFA in dramaturgy from Columbia University School of the Arts.