Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Neena Beber

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991

Neena Beber is an American playwright, television screenplay writer, and producer. Beber has received degrees from Harvard University and the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where she was a Paulette Goddard Fellow and a recipient of a distinguished alumni award. Beber has published several works, including Jump/Cut, The Dew Point, Tomorrowland, A Common Vision, and Misreadings, which was included in Best American Short Plays, 1996-7. Barber has received numerous accolades for her work, including an Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program in 1994, an Obie Grant, a Weissberger Award, an A.S.K. Exchange to The Royal Court Theatre in London, a Sloan Commission from the Cleveland Playhouse, and an Amblin Commission from the Playwrights Horizons. Her screenplays include How to Deal (Newline), and Bad Dates (Touchstone), and her work has been included in several compilations. Beber has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Padua University.

Studios

Schelling

Neena Beber worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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