Abigail Katz serves as Director of New Play Development for Atlantic Theater Company where she has been on the artistic staff since 2009.  In 2014 she expanded Atlantic’s play development program by creating the Amplified Reading Series and Launch Commission for early career writers. 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 in Atlantic Theater Company’s Professional Conservatory program and 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.  A native New Yorker, Abigail received her MFA in dramaturgy from Columbia University School of the Arts.