Judith Fein: When composer/conductor Henry Mollicone asked me to write the libretto for Hotel Eden, he said it had to be based on the Bible. I had one immediate thought: it has to be from the point of view of the women. No, that isn’t entirely true. I also had a second immediate thought—it has to be funny and moving, just like the women I know. I was a Hollywood screenwriter at the time, and I would push my film and TV scripts to the side of my desk, and plunge into the world of those women who sometimes hide and sometimes leap off the pages of the Hebrew Bible.