Abe Koogler

Abe Koogler's plays include Deep Blue Sound (Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks, upcoming), Fulfillment Center (Manhattan Theatre Club), Kill Floor (Lincoln Center Theater), Blue Skies Process (Goodman Theatre's New Stages Festival), Lisa, My Friend (Kitchen Dog Theater), Advance Man (UTNT), and Aspen Ideas (Studio Theatre, postponed due to COVID). He is the winner of an Obie Award for Playwriting, the Dramatists Guild's Lanford Wilson Award, and the Weissberger Award. Premieres of his plays have been directed by Arin Arbus, Daniel Aukin, Lila Neugebauer, Les Waters, and Will Davis, among others. He earned graduate degrees from UT-Austin's Michener Center for Writers and Juilliard. With playwrights Gab Reisman and Katie Bender, he co-wrote the immersive journey plays Slip River and Church of the Passionate Cat, which premiered in Austin. Abe has taught playwriting at Primary Stages and Bennington College, and he also works as a political speechwriter. He was born and raised in Washington State.

• “A quietly surreal shapeshifter of a play with humor and a generous heart. STAFF MEAL feels like a portal: We tumble through its funny, eerie evocation of the moment that made—is still making—our present, and we come out the other side feeling, for all its ebb toward emptiness, full.”

  — Sara Holdren, Vulture | Read Full Article

• “The acting and staging are impeccable. Book a table now. It takes an exceptional director to get her arms around Koogler’s dark whimsy and deliver it intact yet still crackling, and the prodigious Morgan Green succeeds beautifully.”

  — David Cote, Observer | Read Full Article