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Neena Beber is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and television producer.




Early life and education


Beber was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Beber's grandmother, Lydia, was killed during the Nazi occupation of Poland while waiting to be allowed to join her husband and son, who had escaped to Palestine.
Beber has a bachelor's degree from Harvard and a Master of Fine Arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.




Career


Beber started out writing for television, including on Clarissa Explains It All, and switched to writing for the theater. She also has produced for television, including on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.




= Theater productions

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Her comedy Hard Feelings was performed at the Women's Project Theater in 2000. Her play Jump/Cut was performed in 2006 at the Julia Miles Theater in New York. She wrote the book for the musical Rutka, which premiered at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park in October 2024.




= Publication

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Her short (10-minute) play Misreadings was included in Best American Short Plays, 1996–7. As of 2016 nearly a dozen of her plays had been included in compilations, in addition to those published separately.




= Teaching

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Beber has taught for the MFA playwriting program at Columbia University.




Recognition


She was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1994 for Outstanding Children's Program for Clarissa Explains it All and in 2023 for Outstanding Comedy Series for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. In 2006 she won an Obie Emerging Playwright Grant for Jump/Cut. In 2010 she received a Lark Play Development Center fellowship. She won the Go Write a Play award, which supports a new play by a female playwright, at the 2014 Lilly Awards.




Selected works


Rutka (musical) (book)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (co-executive producer)
Strangers (executive producer)
A Common Vision. New York: Samuel French, 2009. ISBN 9780573696619
Tomorrowland. New York: Samuel French, 2009. ISBN 9780573696633
The Dew Point. New York: Samuel French, 2009. ISBN 9780573696626
Jump/Cut. New York, N.Y: Samuel French, 2007. ISBN 9780573628764
Hard Feelings (playwright)
Clarissa Explains It All (writer, producer)




References






External links


Neena Beber at IMDb
Neena Beber at DariaWiki

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