Liba Vaynberg (Playwright, Actor) Described by the New York Times as "wonderfully real and raw," Liba Vaynberg is the daughter of Ukrainian and Azeri Jews. She studied Molecular Biology at Yale before receiving her MFA at Columbia. Plays include The Matriarchs (O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Civilians R&D, Princess Grace Finalist, Theater J Abramson Finalist, Blue Ink Award finalist, and Premiere Stages Semi-Finalist), The Gett (Rattlestick, Princess Grace Semi-Finalist, Colorado New Play Festival, Theater Ariel Salon Series), Round Table (59E59, Fault Line, Tierra Del Sol, Times Square Chronicles’ 10 Best Plays of 2019), Scheiss Book (International United Solo Festival, Wild Project, Dixon Place, Winner: Best One-Woman Show & Winner: Backstage Magazine Audience Choice Award), The Blue Parts with Dina Vovsi (Working Theater, NYSCA), The Russian & The Jew (The Tank). She was a Walter E. Dakin Playwriting Fellow at Sewanee Writers’ Conference, LABA “Humor” Fellow and writes for Lilith Magazine as a personal essayist and arts correspondent. Performance highlights include 4 seasons of New Amsterdam on NBC, starring as Annie Blumberg in The Soap Myth (PBS) opposite Ed Asner, Bekah Brunstetter’s The Oregon Trail at the Women's Project, Lost In Yonkers at Hartford Stage opposite Marsha Mason for which she received a CT Critics' Circle nomination, The Golem of Havana at La Mama, and originating new roles at Yale, the Huntington, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Williamstown, La Jolla Playhouse and Penguin Rep. libavaynberg.com