Braden Abraham is a director based in Chicago, where he serves as artistic director of Writers Theatre. He spent two decades at Seattle Rep, where he directed more than twenty productions, and commissioned, developed and produced many new plays. Around the country, Braden has developed new work at Ojai, O’Neill, Denver Center and Perseverance Theatre, among others. Most recently, he initiated 20×30: Reimagine the Anthropocene, to commission twenty new plays by the year 2030 against the backdrop of climate change.