Abs Wilson
About
abs wilson is a playwright/lyricist. Most recently, she is 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 has 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. 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 Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and Maestra. Current Works: LIGHTHOUSE, SWAMP SONG, KELLY NOWAK, ANIMAL FACTS, and The Butterfly People.
At The Orchard Project
- 2026Performance Lab
KELLY NOWAK
KELLY NOWAK" is a 90-minute musical framed as a true crime documentary that explores the unsolved disappearance of 16-year-old Kelly Nowak, and 18 years later, what her family believes happened to her, examining the desire to find any kind of tangible truth — no matter the rationality or cost.
with KELLY NOWAK
- 2025Performance Lab
LIGHTHOUSE
With graduation in the rearview mirror, Bus is desperate to run away from her small Minnesota hometown and everyone in it, but the only problem— she can’t outrun herself.