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Gabi Grossman is a screenwriter, programmer, and curator. Her scripts have placed as quarter-finalists in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship for Screenwriting and the Slamdance Screenplay Competition, and as a second-rounder in the Sundance Institute Episodic Lab. As a freelance theater critic she has written for Hyperallergic and other outlets.

From 2016-2020, she worked as a programmer and coordinator for the New York Jewish Film Festival, which is a co-presentation of New York’s Film at Lincoln Center and The Jewish Museum. She is on the screening committee of New York's summer-long festival, Rooftop Films, and was a Program Consultant on the Jewish Museum's rotating exhibition Television and Beyond, which examines the evolution of how Jews have been portrayed and portrayed themselves on American television over the decades since its invention.

Earlier, she worked as an archival researcher, most notably on Academy Award-nominated director Charlie Siskel’s 2017 film American Anarchist.

She received her MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University and BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago, with a focus in medieval literature.