Neena Arndt

Neena Arndt is a dramaturg, writer and professor. From 2008 to 2025, she served as the Resident Dramaturg and Literary Manager at The Goodman. During her tenure she was the dramaturg for 57 productions; highlights include the world premieres of Rebecca Gilman’s plays Luna Gale, A True History of the Johnstown Flood and Swing State, and director Robert Falls’ productions of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Iceman Cometh, Measure for Measure and The Winter’s Tale. She has also worked with Milwaukee Repertory Theater, the American Repertory Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville and Long Wharf Theatre, among others. She has taught at Boston University and DePaul University, and holds an MFA in dramaturgy from the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.
Goodman Productions:
- Betrayal: (2025) Dramaturg
- The Penelopiad – Featured Press: (2024) Dramaturg
- The Penelopiad: (2024) Dramaturg
- A Christmas Carol 2023: (2023) Dramaturg
- The Cherry Orchard: (2023) Dramaturg
- A Christmas Carol 2022: (2022) Dramaturg
- A Christmas Carol 2021: (2021) Dramaturg
- I Hate It Here: (2021) Dramaturg
- The Sound Inside: (2021) Dramaturg
- graveyard shift: (2020) Dramaturg
- In the Sick Bay of the Santa Maria: (2019) Dramaturg
- Bernhardt/Hamlet: (2019) Dramaturg
- The Winter’s Tale: (2019) Dramaturg
- Twilight Bowl: (2019) Dramaturg
- We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time: (2018) Dramaturg
- Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3): (2018) Dramaturg
- Having Our Say: The Delany Sister’s First 100 Years: (2018) Dramaturg
- An Enemy of the People: (2018) Dramaturg
- Twilight Bowl – New Stages: (2017) Dramaturg
- A View from the Bridge: (2017) Dramaturg
- Ah, Wilderness!: (2017) Dramaturg
- Uncle Vanya: (2017) Dramaturg
- The Magic Play: (2016) Dramaturg
- Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976: (2016) Dramaturg
- The Matchmaker: (2016) Dramaturg
- 2666: (2016) Dramaturg
- Another Word for Beauty: (2016) Dramaturg
- Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike: (2015) Dramaturg
- The Little Foxes: (2015) Dramaturg
- Two Trains Running: (2015) Dramaturg
- The Magic Play: (2014) Dramaturg
- The World of Extreme Happiness: (2014) Dramaturg
- Brigadoon: (2014) Dramaturg
- Luna Gale: (2014) Dramaturg
- By the Way, Meet Vera Stark: (2013) Dramaturg
- Measure for Measure: (2013) Dramaturg
- The World of Extreme Happiness: (2012) Dramaturg
- Sweet Bird of Youth: (2012) Dramaturg
- The Iceman Cometh: (2012) Dramaturg
- Chicago Boys: (2011) Dramaturg
- Red: (2011) Dramaturg
- Stage Kiss: (2011) Dramaturg
- God of Carnage: (2011) Dramaturg
- The Seagull: (2010) Dramaturg
- The Sins of Sor Juana: (2010) Dramaturg
- A True History of the Johnstown Flood: (2010) Dramaturg
- Animal Crackers: (2009) Dramaturg
- Boleros for the Disenchanted: (2009) Dramaturg
- Ghostwritten: (2009) Dramaturg
- Desire Under the Elms: (2009) Dramaturg
