Some say that a more accurate name for Mara Nelson-Greenberg is Mara Nelson-Professional.
Photo by Sara Krulwich
Photo by Sara Krulwich
Photo by Manny Rotenberg
Mara’s work has been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb and Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others. Her play Do You Feel Anger? premiered at the 2018 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville and was produced off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre in 2019. Her play Hamlet by Mia Fefferman was a finalist for the 2017 Relentless Award. She is an alum of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theater and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group. She received her MFA from UC-San Diego under Naomi Iizuka.
“The first time Mara made eye contact with me, I had an orgasm...”
“Mara’s eyes gave me an orgasm...”
“What is a play? That is like asking ‘What is life?’”
— Mara Nelson-Greenberg
“Mara’s piercing eyes give people orgasms…”
—Friends and Family