Neena Beber

Her plays include Jump/Cut, 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 the short plays Specter and Misreadings.

Most recent: Kate Suspended (National Playwrights Conference at The O’Neill Center; libretto for Rutka (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), and Iphigenia (operetta, composer Anthony Brandt).

Recipient of an Obie grant, a Lilly Award, the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award, a Sloan Commission and a MacDowell Fellowship.

A two-time Emmy nominee, she has written extensively for film and television (most recently, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel).

Neena was born and raised in Miami, Florida and holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University where she specialized in Latin American literature and an M.F.A from N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she was a Paulette Goddard Fellow.

A member of the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, her lyrics are featured in work by frequent collaborator Jaime Lozano.

An alumna of New Dramatists, Neena has taught at Columbia University, mentored at Reel Works, and sits on the Advisory Board of The Orchard Project.