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 Samuel French. She is a recipient of a Lilly Award; the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award, and Sloan and Amblin Commissions; she has been a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize as well as an exchange at the Royal Court Theatre. Her radical adaptation of Brecht’s The Mother, co-conceived with Jessica Hecht, is currently slated for development at Baryshnikov Arts Center. Neena is the author of librettos for the operas Ulysses, Home and Kassandra (composer Anthony Brandt), premiering at Rice University and 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 and to Songs from an Immigrant by frequent collaborator Jaime Lozano. Other musical collaborations include book writing The 24-Hour Musicals and book & lyrics for Jade Alaska, commissioned by TheaterWorks USA. Current television work includes co-executive producer for the current season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and adapting Zadie Smith’s short story “For the King” with actress Deborah Ayorinde for Sony Television. Her adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Little Bear garnered Emmy and Ace Award nominations. Screenplays: How to Deal (starring Mandy Moore); Raising Waylon (CBS TV movie); the short Bad Dates (dir. Des McAnuff); currently collaborating with director Rodrigo García on an adaptation of Cama Adentro. Neena 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 (Paulette Goddard Fellow; Distinguished Alumni Award). An alumna of New Dramatists, Neena has taught at the MFA playwriting program at Columbia University and sits on the Advisory Board of The Orchard Project.