Nigel Berkeley

Nigel Berkeley is a NY based actor, writer, and theatre maker. He was a Co-Founder of the Quarantine Bake Off, a digital playwriting challenge responding to COVID-19 with 4000 international submissions. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program, 2021. His play, simply so much night, was a Semi-Finalist for the Jewish Plays Project. He collaborated on writing Adelia (or, the Nose Play) with Daniel Holzman, which was shown at Dixon place in 2019 and Counterpulse SF in 2018. His favorite role was that of a Dancing Sheep in As You Like It.

Nigel Berkeley is a NY based actor, writer, and theatre maker. He was a Co-Founder of the Quarantine Bake Off, a digital playwriting challenge responding to COVID-19 with 4000 international submissions. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program, 2021. His play, simply so much night, was a Semi-Finalist for the Jewish Plays Project. He collaborated on writing Adelia (or, the Nose Play) with Daniel Holzman, which was shown at Dixon place in 2019 and Counterpulse SF in 2018. His favorite role was that of a Dancing Sheep in As You Like It.

Scripts

simply so much night

by Nigel Berkeley

1
Cast Size
9
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
immersive,
romantic comedy

in a shtetl somewhere in Maine, two sisters reunite with old loves, old friends, and old selves. written while listening to a mixture of klezmer and 70’s folk songs, simply so much night is a sweet, quiet play about memory, regret, maplessness, and the meals we share together. come sit down, enjoy a feast, there’s always plenty of time.

in a shtetl somewhere in Maine, two sisters reunite with old loves, old friends, and old selves. written while listening to a mixture of klezmer and 70’s folk songs, simply so much night is a sweet, quiet play about memory, regret, maplessness, and the meals we share together. come sit down, enjoy a feast, there’s always plenty of time.

plantasia (a romance)

by Nigel Berkeley

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
immersive,
movement/physical,
romantic comedy,
tragedy

plantasia is a quiet meditation about four friends and their community garden. It is about a changing city slowly encroaching on an island. It is about magical plants and the people that love them. It is about people who don't like change but love to watch things grow. It is both a play and a haiku. Mostly, it’s about dirt and love and loss and San Francisco.

plantasia is a quiet meditation about four friends and their community garden. It is about a changing city slowly encroaching on an island. It is about magical plants and the people that love them. It is about people who don't like change but love to watch things grow. It is both a play and a haiku. Mostly, it’s about dirt and love and loss and San Francisco.

moonwatchers

by Nigel Berkeley

Cast Size
2—5
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
fable/folktale,
farce,
musical,
young audiences

Two "Moon Custodians" clock in for a normal night shift. But when the moon is stolen by the most notorious space cowboy, a chaotic space adventure ensues. Funny, heartfelt and hopeful, this play with music is out of this galaxy!

Two "Moon Custodians" clock in for a normal night shift. But when the moon is stolen by the most notorious space cowboy, a chaotic space adventure ensues. Funny, heartfelt and hopeful, this play with music is out of this galaxy!

funeral bread

by Nigel Berkeley

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

3 sisters (sorry) have one last thing to make before their uncle's funeral. they haven't seen each other in a while and hated their uncle anyways, so why are they even bothering to make anything?

a diptych about loss, bread, family, and boxes.

3 sisters (sorry) have one last thing to make before their uncle's funeral. they haven't seen each other in a while and hated their uncle anyways, so why are they even bothering to make anything?

a diptych about loss, bread, family, and boxes.

bavaria

by Nigel Berkeley

Cast Size
10—20
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
melodrama,
movement/physical,
pageant,
period,
romantic comedy,
tragedy

Silly and sad and poetic, bavaria is a modern fairytale epic set in the kingdom of Bavaria in the past, present, and future. It is about war, love, support groups, and the eternal. And donuts. We follow a woman made of flowers, a sad and angry duke, a young man seeking purpose, his warrior mother falling in love for the first time, and a frog who watches helplessly as his life passes by again and again and again...

Silly and sad and poetic, bavaria is a modern fairytale epic set in the kingdom of Bavaria in the past, present, and future. It is about war, love, support groups, and the eternal. And donuts. We follow a woman made of flowers, a sad and angry duke, a young man seeking purpose, his warrior mother falling in love for the first time, and a frog who watches helplessly as his life passes by again and again and again as their lives and stories entangle and unfold.

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the postman and the lady of the evening

by Nigel Berkeley

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
romantic comedy

(10 MIN)
the postman is in love with the lady of the evening and gets to deliver her letters everyday. a short, sweet play about the rain and words spoken and unspoken.

(10 MIN)
the postman is in love with the lady of the evening and gets to deliver her letters everyday. a short, sweet play about the rain and words spoken and unspoken.