Brooke Berman is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and memoirist whose work has been produced and published across the US and abroad. Originally trained as an actor and solo performer in the experimental theater, Brooke began performing her own work on the Lower East Side of Manhattan before receiving formal training in playwriting from the Juilliard School and Maria Irene Fornes. Her play Hunting and Gathering, which premiered at Primary Stages, directed by Leigh Silverman, was named one of the Ten Best of 2008 by New York Magazine. She adapted her play SMASHING for Natalie Portman and has written features for The Mark Gordon Company, Vox Films, Red Crown, and Fugitive. .

Brooke Berman wrote and directed the short film, UGGS FOR GAZA which 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 currently in pre-production for her directorial debut feature POLLY FREED. PF was chosen to be part of New York Stage and Film’s Screenwriters Lab in 2018 where it was mentored by Kyra Sedgewick, Zach Helm and Billy Goldbert. PF was also selected as part the MOME (Mayor’s Office of NYC) inaugural finance lab for female filmmakers and NYWIFT From Script to Preproduction lab. PF has made it to “second round” for Sundance Screenwriting Labs two years in a row

Brooke's plays have been produced and developed across the US at theaters including: Steppenwolf, Soho Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Naked Angels, MCC, Primary Stages, The Humana Festival, 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. Her play Hunting and Gathering was named to the Best of 2008 by New York Magazine.

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.

She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Barnard College, where she majored in American Studies. She is a proud alumna of New Dramatists and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.

More information: www.brookeberman.net