Abigail Jean-Baptiste – 2022 Cohort

abigail jean-baptiste is a theater maker born & based in New York City with roots in Haiti and the American South. guided by questions around blackness, femininity, and kinship, abigail’s work uses fragmented language, repeatable gestures, and found objects in a search to build nonsensical ways of being. most recently: directed OBIT, OR NO MORE DEAD DOGS by Mik Johnson (workshop, Playwrights Realm), dramaturgy for LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS by Esperanza Rosales (Breaking the Binary), Lead Artist Residency at Mercury Store, directed OLIO by Tyehimba Jess & Janice Lowe (JACK), directed THE MISPLACED SAINTS by Audley Puglisi (Reading, Checkmark Productions), adapted & directed M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A by A. Van Jordan (Workshop, HGB Foundation & Northern Stage), directed THE SALT WOMEN by Audley Puglisi (New Works Lab, Playwrights Horizons), directed FEFU AND HER FRIENDS by María Irene Fornés (Atlantic Acting School, NYU Tisch). Previously: 2023-24 BOLD Resident Director (Northern Stage), FY2023 NYSCA Grantee (Playwrights Horizons), Cycle 9 Audrey Resident (New Georges), 2023 JACK Radical Acts Artist, I AM SOUL Directing Residency (National Black Theater), 2021 Project Number One Artist (Soho Rep.), 2021 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Playwright, Roundabout Directors Group Cohort 2, and proud 2018 Lilly Award Winner. Upcoming: KING JAMES by Rajiv Joseph (Northern Stage) and TI-JEAN AND HIS BROTHERS by Derek Walcott (Princeton University). www.abigailjeanbaptiste.org @abigailrosejb