Brooke Berman is an award-winning mid-career female playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and memoirist whose work has been produced and published across the US and abroad. Brooke wrote and directed the feature film RAMONA AT MIDLIFE (www.ramonatmidlife.com); Ramona premiered at Geena Davis's esteemed Bentonville Film Festival and is currently on the festival circuit.
Brooke's plays have been produced and developed across the US at theaters including: 2nd Stage, Steppenwolf, Soho Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Naked Angels, MCC, Primary Stages, The Humana Festival, Theatreworks Hartford, Arielle Tepper Productions and The Bay Area Playwrights Foundation. Internationally, her work has been developed at The Royal Court Theatre, The National Theatre Studio and Pentabus and produced at...
Brooke Berman is an award-winning mid-career female playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and memoirist whose work has been produced and published across the US and abroad. Brooke wrote and directed the feature film RAMONA AT MIDLIFE (www.ramonatmidlife.com); Ramona premiered at Geena Davis's esteemed Bentonville Film Festival and is currently on the festival circuit.
Brooke's plays have been produced and developed across the US at theaters including: 2nd Stage, Steppenwolf, Soho Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Naked Angels, MCC, Primary Stages, The Humana Festival, Theatreworks Hartford, Arielle Tepper Productions and The Bay Area Playwrights Foundation. Internationally, her work has been developed at The Royal Court Theatre, The National Theatre Studio and Pentabus and produced at Red Stitch Theatre in Australia. Brooke's play Hunting and Gathering, which premiered at Primary Stages, directed by Leigh Silverman, was named one of the Ten Best by New York Magazine. Most recently Brooke developed A Model City with Leigh Silverman for Stacey Mindich Productions and Dearly Beloved with Michael Barakiva through the Hangar Theater's AIRS residency program.
Brooke is the author of three nonfiction books including the memoir, No Place Like Home, published by Random House. She has received numerous awards and grants for her plays and support from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.
Brooke's short film U4G premiered at the Aspen International ShortsFest where it won Audience Special Recognition award. UGGS also screened at Toronto Shorts Fest and Santa Fe Film Festival. ALL SAINTS DAY, a short film Brooke wrote, directed by Will Frears, won Best Narrative Short at the Savannah Film Festival and played at the Tribeca Film Festival. She adapted her play SMASHING for Natalie Portman and has written features for The Mark Gordon Company, Vox Films, Red Crown, and Fugitive Films.
She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Barnard College, where she majored in American Studies. She is a proud member of the WGA and the Dramatists Guild, and an alumna of New Dramatists and one of the founders of The Honor Roll, an advocacy group for female-identified playwrights over 40.
More information: www.brookeberman.net, https://linktr.ee/brookeberman