Barbara Neri

Barbara Neri is a published writer, scholar, multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and educator. She is internationally recognized for The Elizabeth Barrett Browning Project, a synergy of creative and critical processes generating groundbreaking work. A published and produced playwright, Neri is the author of a solo show The Consolation of Poetry, the play Unlocking Desire and its Marfa Film Festival winning screen adaptation, currently in pre-production. Her feature screenplay, Sonnets from the Portuguese, re-envisions Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning's powerful love story for contemporary audiences. Her screenplay The Forgotten Front, a 2021 Academy Nicholl quarterfinalist, is an historic LGBTQ+, WWII love story. Neri is associate Editor of The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Her book Poets in Love explores the relevance of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese for all readers. Scholarship is groundwater, Art is the public tap. The fruitful synergy between them is the realm of Barbara Neri.