Abady's mother Nina (née Friedman) was an Alabama-born civil rights activist of Mizrahi Jewish (Syrian Jewish) descent who worked full time to support her three kids after Aaron's father, who was of Sephardic Jewish (Lebanese-Jewish) descent, passed away.
She opened the season at the Cleveland Play House with a revival of Born Yesterday, starring Ed Asner and Madeline Kahn, a production that moved to Broadway.
From 1994 to 1996, Abady was one of the two artistic directors of the Circle in the Square Theatre, along with Theodore Mann.
[3] She later co-produced a TV remake of A Raisin in the Sun, which starred Esther Rolle and Danny Glover.
[5][6] Despite her advanced breast cancer, she was active during the last years of her life, until her death, at her home in Manhattan, aged 52.