The Amazing Neena Beber_RUTKA:A New Musical #14 101124 EMPKT Media Inc #podmatch

Please subscribe to our YouTube page to receive notices on all new podcasts as well helping us grow our audience. https://www.youtube.com/c/NewClevelandRadio https://newclevelandradio.net/ If you would like to be a podcast host or guest please contact Karen at [email protected] Neena Beber is a playwright, screenwriter and lyricist who was born and raised in Miami, Florida. 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 Misreadings, all published by Concord/Samuel French. Neena’s work has premiered at New Georges, The Magic Theater, The Women’s Project, Woolly Mammoth, The Humana Festival; she has developed work at the O’Neill Theater Center, The Lark, New York Theater Workshop (Usual Suspect), The Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival, Williamstown Theater Festival, Playwrights Horizons, and The Royal Court Theatre. In addition to an Obie grant, she is a recipient of a Lilly Award, the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award, and Sloan and Amblin Commissions, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. A two-time Emmy nominee, she has written extensively for film and television. She is currently writing lyrics for a musical about Frida Kahlo (composer Jaime Lozano); book & lyrics for an adaptation of Nabokov’s short story “The Vane Sisters” (composer Daniel Rein); book for the musical Rutka (songs by Jocelyn Mackenzie & Jeremy Lloyd-Styles); book and co-lyricist for A Mother, a radical adaptation of Brecht’s The Mother co-conceived with Jessica Hecht (composer/co-lyricists Mustapha Kahn, Kenny Vaughan & Norman Burns); and co-book for Stuck in the 90s, a musical using songs from the 1990s. She is the author of librettos for the operettas Ulysses, Home and Kassandra (premiering at Rice University and Opera in the Heights); she and composer Anthony Brandt are currently collaborating on their third operetta to complete the cycle of updated Greek myths, this one a story of climate change , sacrifice and the wind, Iphigenia. A member of the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, Neena 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 for The 24-Hour Musicals and book & lyrics for Jade Alaska, a YA musical commissioned by TheaterWorks USA (composer Benjamin Diskant). Neena has written extensively for TV and film (two-time Emmy nominee). 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, where she was a Paulette Goddard Fellow. An alumna of New Dramatists, Neena has taught in the MFA playwriting program at Columbia University and sits on the Advisory Board of The Orchard Project. About the Play - visit https://www.cincyplay.com/productions/RUTKA?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwmaO4BhAhEiwA5p4YLyQH1ikWBP4GfejeToo042YuJigJsODnTRkbQCRU2o_-BiDPN1xUFhoCfe8QAvD_BwE Buy tickets - https://ticketing.cincyplay.com/0/27854 If you are looking for a Personal Coach contact Karen at #YESICAN coaching with Karen [email protected] 440 526 1530