Abi Basch is a playwright and director whose plays include Voices Underwater, fEaR oF a FüHrEr, Lucy Dies in Fives, and PRESERVATION (A BIRD MUTATION).  Her work has been produced in the U.S. by companies such as Synchronicity Performance Group (Atlanta), Serendipity Theatre (Chicago), Salvage Vanguard Theater (Austin), Refraction Arts Project (Austin), and the Playwrights Foundation with A Traveling Jewish Theatre (San Francisco); in Germany by Theaterhaus Hildesheim (Hildesheim) and Intransitos Gallery (Berlin); in Russia by the Theatre Without Stages Festival (St. Petersburg); and in Thailand by The Patravadi Theatre (Bangkok). She has received two Jerome Fellowships from the Playwrights’ Center, Best of Fest in Fronterafest, a Fulbright Fellowship, and an Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellowship. She is a member of Austin Script Works and the Dramatists Guild, and holds an AB from Brown University and an MFA in Playwriting from UT Austin. She was recently a guest professor at the University of Hildesheim.