Nico Juber

Biography

Recently named to the 2023 Women to Watch on Broadway list by the Broadway Women's Fund, Nico Juber is a Drama League songwriting contest and NAMT Challenge award-winning musical writer.

In addition to recently making her Off-Broadway debut with MILLENNIALS ARE KILLING MUSICALS (cast album on Yellow Sound Label), her songs have been selected for and performed at the Arts Ignite Art of Wellness Benefit, A Little New Music, The Latest Draft, New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series, mostlyNEWmusicals, Drama League Light the Lights Benefit (with Selena Seballo, performed by André de Shields), The Green Room 42, Joe's Pub, and 54 Below.

Her musical WINNER (MSU New Musical Laboratory 2023 Finalist), co-written with Joe Barros, is currently being developed by New York Theatre Barn and New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. After a recent NYC reading in May 2023, the show debuted in the heart of the West End as part of The London Summer Music Theatre Academy in August 2023.

Her sci-fi short musical, HOLO, won one of the top awards in the 2020 National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) Challenge. HOLO premiered at the Beck Center for the Arts (with Baldwin Wallace Music Theatre) in Spring 2021 and was selected for the 2021 Broadway OnDemand Short Film Festival.

She collaborated with Rocky Paterra & Wheelhouse Labs to write the viral Smirnoff Smash Tea Partay, which has over 6.5 million views and stars Kathy Hilton. She has also received song commissions for 54 Below programming, the Ring of Keys Gala, and the play Stormé by Carolyn M. Brown (with Christie Chiles Twillie). As a playwright, her work was featured in the Live & In Color 24-Hour Play Festival and recently included in a series that showcases the right to health care and privacy with a focus on abortion called The a Chronicles.

Nico is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, The League of Professional Theatre Women, Ring of Keys, and serves as Maestra Moms affinity group co-chair. She holds a B.A. from Tufts University and gives back through her nonprofit, Thrive/Survive Los Angeles, for other cancer survivors.