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Liba Vaynberg is a first generation American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. The daughter of Ukrainian and Azeri Jewish refugees, she is bilingual in English and Russian. She studied Molecular Biology at Yale before receiving her MFA at Columbia. She writes for Lilith Magazine and received a Water E. Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the LABA Humor Fellowship. As a performer, highlights include 4 seasons of New Amsterdam (NBC), Annie Blumberg in the PBS broadcast of The Soap Myth opposite Ed Asner & Tova Feldshuh, originating the role of Now Jane in Bekah Brunstetter’s Oregon Trail at the WP, Lost In Yonkers opposite Marsha Mason (for which she received a CT Critic’s Circle nomination), Harley Elias’ Bad Dog at Miami New Drama, and The Golem of Havana at La Mama. Presented in partnership with Miami New Drama.