Abby Lynn Kang Davis Founder, character.

Multi-Emmy-nominated Abby Lynn Kang Davis primarily collaborates with storytellers and curators in non-fiction. Throughout her career, Abby has focused on breaking underrepresented voices into the commercial television and film industry. Her specialized skill set identifying viable talent, advocacy and mentorship on behalf of unknown storytellers has garnered millions in sales revenue, top-tier film festival invitations and award nominations.

Abby began her career at Freestyle Picture Company, where she assisted in the directorial debuts of top female talent such as Jennifer Aniston, Zoe Saldana, and Olivia Wilde. Abby began the next phase of her career as an agent at Preferred Content, and over her six-year tenure was responsible for bringing multiple projects to market, among them being Rich Hill (Sundance 2014), The Bad Kids (Sundance 2016) and 78/52 (Sundance 2017) and executive producing Emmy-nominated Long Shot (Telluride 2017/Netflix Originals), Emmy-winning 306 Hollywood (Sundance 2018/PBS POV), Wrinkles the Clown (Magnolia) and the television docuseries The Devil You Know (Viceland). Abby went on to serve as Head of Originals at Breakwater Studios (BS), one of the first venture-backed branded content studios by MWM’s Gigi Pritzker. Among the projects she developed and produced while at BS was The New York Times’ Emmy-nominated series Almost Famous (Telluride 2020 / Op Docs).

Currently Abby is the founder of character., a producing and consulting company that focuses on discovering and advocating for underrepresented storytellers into the commercial film and television marketplace. Abby is originally from Michigan and splits her time between Chicago and Los Angeles.