Danya Abt is an editor and documentary filmmaker based out of New York City. Her films have shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of the Arts and have been televised nationally. Her recent short film Eric, Winter to Spring was a selection for the True/False and Camden Film Festivals and was selected as Best Documentary Short at the Brooklyn Film Festival.

Danya has taught and guest-lectured at Sacred Heart University, the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts and the University of Buffalo.