Abe Reybold is a graduate of The Baltimore School for the Arts and a multi-disciplinary theatre artist for over 30 years working as an actor, director, choreographer and writer. His early career was performance focused, acting in plays, musicals and concerts on Broadway and National Tours and in Regional and Stock theatres across the country. His Theatre for Young Audiences experience started at The Birmingham Children’s Theatre where he staged Tuxedo Junction, Zorro!, The Snow Girl, Scrooge, wrote the play Sacagawea; The Journey of Little Bird and re-imagined the Peter and the Wolf story in collaboration with The Alabama Symphony. While serving as Associate Artistic Director at ZACH Theatre in Austin, Abe staged Matilda the Musical, Three Little Pigs (Stiles & Drewe), Elephant and Piggie’s We Are in a Play!, Goodnight Moon, and James and the Giant Peach (Pasek & Paul).  As an Associate Artist at Nashville Children’s Theatre, he directed Pete the Cat, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Pippi Longstocking and drew from his experiences with these wonderful shows to write the book and lyrics for The Gingerbread Kid.