Abby Dunbar
Abby is an accomplished playwright and theatre artist. She has had short plays featured in the Gi60 Houston One Minute Play Fesitval in July 2024, the Santa Cruz Actor’s Theatre’s 8 Tens @ 8 in February 2024, and the Bechdel Group’s Sunday Shortlist in December 2023.
Abby is currently co-founding a new queer theatre troupe based out of Washington D.C., the Lavender Theatre Company, with the goal to foster a theatre community for LGBTQ+ folks in the DMV, and to support the development of new works based around the queer experience. Lavender Theatre Company aims to produce its first production in Summer 2025—a queer Midsummer Night’s Dream.
In partnership with Fringe Benefits Theatre in Los Angeles, Abby wrote and directed a series of short videos called “What’s Wrong with Feminism?” that investigate and discuss the need for and the issues with the modern American feminist movement. These videos can be found on the Fringe Benefits Theatre’s YouTube channel and here on the Video page.
Since graduating from the University of Redlands c/o 2021 with a double B.A. in Theatre Arts and Media & Visual Culture Studies, Abby has relocated to Washington D.C., and has had the opportunity to stage manage professionally for Perisphere Theatre, and participate in the first Queer Stories devised performance with The Theatre Lab.
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