Erica Berman

Erica Berman

ERICA BERMAN is a playwright, director, and theater educator. Her plays have been produced at Milwaukee Chamber Theater, The Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Four Seasons Theater, Interlochen Arts Camp, and Kent Place School. She was also commissioned to write an original musical for Kohl’s Wild Theater’s 2019-2020 season at the Milwaukee County Zoo. Her plays have been developed at the Wisconsin Wrights Festival (...
ERICA BERMAN is a playwright, director, and theater educator. Her plays have been produced at Milwaukee Chamber Theater, The Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Four Seasons Theater, Interlochen Arts Camp, and Kent Place School. She was also commissioned to write an original musical for Kohl’s Wild Theater’s 2019-2020 season at the Milwaukee County Zoo. Her plays have been developed at the Wisconsin Wrights Festival (Forward Theater), Montgomery Davis Play Development Series (Milwaukee Chamber Theater), Words and Music Series (Four Seasons Theater), Protostar Series (Children's Theater of Madison), and a finalist for the Br!NK Residency Award (Renaissance Theaterworks) and New Plays for Young Audiences (NYU). She was awarded residency to the 2018 & 2019 National Winter Playwrights Retreat with the HBMG Foundation in Colorado. Erica received her BA Mount Holyoke College, MA Emerson College. Her theses at both institutions focused on playwriting.

Plays

  • No Wake
    With determination (and a bullhorn), elderly Peter Michaels is on a mission to save the loons of Lake Winnipesaukee, who are dying in record numbers. His summer expectations are thwarted by Sarah, a townie teenager hired to clean the house next door. While the two initially grate on each other, they slowly forge a unique intergenerational bond, opening up one tentative moment at a time and encouraging each...
    With determination (and a bullhorn), elderly Peter Michaels is on a mission to save the loons of Lake Winnipesaukee, who are dying in record numbers. His summer expectations are thwarted by Sarah, a townie teenager hired to clean the house next door. While the two initially grate on each other, they slowly forge a unique intergenerational bond, opening up one tentative moment at a time and encouraging each other to truly acknowledge their loneliness and loss.
  • Finder and the North Star
    When Finder makes a wish on a star, a magical, wondrous, scary, & spectacular adventure is set into motion. A mysterious visitor initiates a journey beneath the earth, above the clouds, and to worlds Finder never knew existed. An uncharted wish forces our hero to forge a new path that ultimately leads to the monster that Finder needs to face in order to make the wish come true.
  • When the Music Stops: The Anita O'Day Story
    Anita O’Day lived an improvised life. Like jazz itself she broke the rules, weaved in and out of the melody. "When the Music Stops" introduces audience to the life and music of a talented, complicated, grown breaking, funny, and flawed woman. An outspoken risk taker, a trend setter, and a survivor.