The Kerri Edelman Show Presents Award-Winning Playwright Brett Neveu

Brett Neveu is an Award-Winning Playwright. His Film/TV productions include Eric LaRue (dir. Michael Shannon) with Big Indie Pictures, Brace Cove Productions and CaliWood Pictures, Night’s End (dir. Jennifer Reeder) with Shudder/AMC, the short Convo with Breakwall Pictures and the feature The Earl with Intermission Productions. Recent theatre productions include The Malignant Ampersands with A Red Orchid Theatre, Verböten with House Theatre (Joseph Jefferson Nomination, New Work), Traitor with A Red Orchid Theatre (Joseph Jefferson Award, New Adaptation) and To Catch a Fish with Timeline Theatre. Past work includes productions with 59e59 Theatre in New York; The Royal Court Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company in London, to name a few. A Sundance Institute Ucross Fellow, Brett is a recipient of a Steinberg/ATCA New Play Citation (Verböten), The Marquee Award from Chicago Dramatists, The Ofner Prize for New Work and an After Dark Award for Outstanding Musical (Old Town), to name a few. He has developed plays with companies including The Atlantic Theatre Company and The New Group (NY) and The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre and Victory Gardens Theatre (IL). He is a resident-alum of Chicago Dramatists, an ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theatre, a founding member of the playwright collective MC-10, an alumni member of TimeLine Theatre Company’s Writers Collective and Center Theatre Group’s Playwrights’ Workshop (LA). Brett has been commissioned by The Royal Court Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and A Red Orchid Theatre, to name a few. His plays have been published through Broadway Play Publishing, Dramatic Publishing and Nick Hern Publishing. He has taught writing at DePaul University, Second City Training Center and currently teaches writing for the screen and stage at Northwestern University.