Brooke Berman

Brooke Berman is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and memoirist whose work has been produced and published across the US and abroad. 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 is currently developing A MODEL CITY with Leigh Silverman and is in pre-production for the feature POLLY FREED, based on her play OUT OF THE WATER. Brooke’s plays have been produced and developed across the US at theaters including: Primary Stages, Second Stage, Steppenwolf, The Play Company, Soho Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Naked Angels, MCC, New Dramatists, New Georges, The Womens Project, The Humana Festival, and The Bay Area Playwrights Foundation and many, many others. In the UK, her work has been developed at The Royal Court Theatre, The National Theatre Studio and Pentabus. She is the recipient of a Berilla Kerr Award, a Helen Merrill Award, two Francesca Primus Awards, two LeCompte du Nuoy awards and a commissioning grant from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. She was a resident playwright at New Dramatists, where she served on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, earned a Calloway Award, and developed countless plays. She has received support for her work from the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo and commissions from Arielle Tepper Productions and CTC in Minneapolis. As a filmmaker, Brooke wrote and directed the short film, UGGS FOR GAZA, which premiered at the Aspen International ShortsFest and won Audience Special Recognition. ALL SAINTS DAY, a short film she wrote, directed by Will Frears, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won Best Narrative Short at the Savannah Film Festival. She adapted her play SMASHING for Natalie Portman and has written features for The Mark Gordon Company, Vox, Red Crown, and Fugitive Films. Brooke’s memoir, No Place Like Home, published by Random House, was called “Highbrow/Brilliant” by New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix. Brooke attended Barnard College and is a graduate of The Juilliard School. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, PEN and an alumna of New Dramatists.