Brett Neveu is an American playwright, and ensemble member at A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago.
A Sundance Institute Ucross Fellow, Brett is also a recipient of 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 (Old Town) 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.
He is a resident-alum of Chicago Dramatists, a proud 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 in Los Angeles.
Brett has taught writing at DePaul University, Second City Training Center and currently teaches writing for the screen and stage at Northwestern University.
He adapted his play Eric Larue into a screenplay to be directed as a feature film by A Red Orchid Theatre founding member Michael Shannon.