An Interview with Neena Beber - NPC '22

We chat with Neena Beber about her play, Kate Suspended, performing June 29 & 30, 2022 as part of our National Playwrights Conference.

Neena Beber is a playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist who was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Her plays include the Obie-award winning Jump/Cut, as well as A Foreign Body, The Dew Point, Hard Feelings, Tomorrowland, A Common Vision, The Brief but Exemplary Life of the Living Goddess (as told by herself), and Misreadings, published by Concord Theatricals. She is a recipient of a “Go Write a Play” Lilly Award; the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award; Sloan and Amblin Commissions; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist; Sloan Exchange at the Royal Court Theatre.

Neena is the author of librettos for the operas Ulysses, Home, and Kassandra with composer Anthony Brandt (Rice University; Opera in the Heights). A member of the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, she has contributed to New York Public Library at Lincoln Center’s Songbook Series: Broadway’s Future; Songs from an Immigrant by frequent collaborator Jaime Lozano; Jade Alaska (composer Ben Diskant) commissioned by TheaterWorks USA. Current TV/film: co-executive producer for the current season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and an adaptation of Cama Adentro with director Rodrigo García. Current theater: adapting Brecht’s The Mother with Jessica Hecht. B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University; M.F.A from N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts (Paulette Goddard Fellow). An alumna of New Dramatists, Neena has taught at the MFA playwriting program at Columbia University, sits on the advisory board of The Orchard Project, and mentors for Reel Works.

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