Neena Beber was most recently at Actors Theatre of Louisville with her ten-minute play Misreadings (included in Best American Short Plays, 1996-7). A Common Vision and The Brief but Exemplary Life of the Living Goddess both premiered at the Magic Theatre; Tomorrowland at New Georges and subsequently Theatre J in Washington, D.C.; Failure to Thrive at Padua Hills Playwrights Festival. One acts Adaptive Ruse, Departures and Sensation(s) at HB Playwrights Foundation; Acts of Desire, collected shorts, Watermark Theatre. Her new plays Thirst and Hard Feelings were developed at Ojai Playwrights Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Otterbein and the Public Theater's New Work Now. Additional credits include and Amblin Commission from Playwrights Horizons, A.S.K. Exchange to The Royal Court, and a Distinguished Alumni Award from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Bad Dates, a film, is based on her one-act play, Food. Beber holds a B.A. from Harvard. She is a member of New Dramatists.
