Performer and lyricist Daniel Neer (SM ’95, voice) serves on the voice faculty at Temple University. He recently performed with Washington National Opera, American Repertory Theater, and Experiments in Opera, as well as world premieres including Polar Bear with Sara Carina Graef, Hopper Haiku with Ellen Mandel, and the opera And Here We Are with Matthew Welch, for which Neer supplied the libretto.