In 2011, Theresa Rebeck was named one of the 150 Fearless Women in the World by Newsweek. She had more than a dozen plays produced in New York, including Omnium Gatherum, for which she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She was the creator of the NBC drama Smash and has a long history of producing and writing for major television and film successes. She is the author of Three Girls and Their Brother and Twelve Rooms with a View. Ms. Rebeck has taught at Brandeis and Columbia.