Abigail Jean-Baptiste

Abigail Jean-Baptiste is a New York City-based director, theater maker, writer, and generative artist with family roots in Haiti and the American South. Their OBIE-winning work uses fragmented language and repeatable gestures to explore Blackness, kinship, and loneliness. Their recent directing credits include A.K. Payne's Furlough's Paradise at Yale Repertory Theatre (spring 2026) and Aishah Rahman's Chiaroscuro at The Flea (2025). They are also a 2018 Lilly Award winner. Listed by Missa with Playbill (resident, 2025) and Forms (resident, 2025).