Brett Neveu
Brett Neveu is a writer and producer for film and theater. He wrote the feature screenplays for Eric LaRue (dir. Michael Shannon), Night’s End (dir. Jennifer Reeder), The Earl (dir. Jim Sikora), and the short Convo with Breakwall Pictures.
Recent theatre productions include Revolution with b.e. Productions; Verböten with House Theatre (Chicago); Traitor with A Red Orchid Theatre (Chicago); and To Catch a Fish with Timeline Theatre (Chicago). A Sundance Institute Ucross Fellow, Brett is also a recipient of a Steinberg/ATCA New Play Citation, The Marquee Award from Chicago Dramatists, The Ofner Prize for New Work, the Emerging Artist Award from The League of Chicago Theatres, an After Dark Award for Outstanding Musical and has developed plays with companies including The Atlantic Theatre Company and The New Group in New York and The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, and Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago.
Neveu is a resident-alum of Chicago Dramatists, a proud ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theatre, a founding member of the multimedia group the Ice Core Collective, an alumni member of TimeLine Theatre Company’s Writers Collective, and Center Theatre Group’s Playwrights’ Workshop in Los Angeles. He currently teaches screenwriting as an assistant professor at Northwestern University.
