Beim, Norman.

Norman Beim is a Jewish-American playwright, actor, and director. Beim was born on October 2, 1923 in Newark, N.J. Originally intending to be a novelist, Beim attended Ohio State University from 1941 to 1942 and left to serve in the United States Army Field Artillery from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. While fighting in Germany, Beim was awarded second prize in the National Theater Conference competition for his first one-act play, Inside, which was first produced in 1951. After returning from the war, Beim continued writing and also worked as an actor.

Beim has won numerous awards for his plays, including the Robert J. Pickering Award, the David James Ellis Award, the Maxim Mazumdar Award, as well as the Samuel French Short Play Award for The Deserter . Beim's plays have been produced nationally and internationally. In the 1980s, Pygmalion and Galatea was produced in the Netherlands, as well as the play Success, which was also produced in Bruges, Belgium.

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