Abe Johnson writes Big Messy Queer Plays that center gray areas and strange transformations. Abe is a Resident Playwright with Triboro Producers Club, a two-time Lambda Literary Fellow (mentored by Phillip Howze and Luis Alfaro) and has produced/developed work with the Tank NYC (Frontera Series), Workshop Theater, Horizon Theater, Synchronicity Theater, Essential Theater, OutFront Theater, and Working Title Playwrights among others. Finalist credits include SPACE on Ryder Farms and the National Young Playwrights Residency.
Abe has served on the Artistic Council for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (reader: 2019-2024), also reading for Playwrights Realm (2021-2023), the O'Neill Young Playwrights Festival, the Campfire Theater Festival, the Essential Theater, Georgia Theater...
Abe Johnson writes Big Messy Queer Plays that center gray areas and strange transformations. Abe is a Resident Playwright with Triboro Producers Club, a two-time Lambda Literary Fellow (mentored by Phillip Howze and Luis Alfaro) and has produced/developed work with the Tank NYC (Frontera Series), Workshop Theater, Horizon Theater, Synchronicity Theater, Essential Theater, OutFront Theater, and Working Title Playwrights among others. Finalist credits include SPACE on Ryder Farms and the National Young Playwrights Residency.
Abe has served on the Artistic Council for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (reader: 2019-2024), also reading for Playwrights Realm (2021-2023), the O'Neill Young Playwrights Festival, the Campfire Theater Festival, the Essential Theater, Georgia Theater Conference, the AMPLIFY: Black Playwrights Festival, and the EXPLODE Theater Group.
When not playwriting or yelling about how awful the industry can be, Abe uses all pronouns, feels most powerful in overalls, and is a beginner bird-watcher.