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, 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 that year by New York Magazine. She has written films for Natalie Portman, The Mark Gordon Company, Vox Films, Red Crown, and Fugitive Films. She developed her play A MODEL CITY (Vradenburg Prize Runner Up) with Leigh Silverman. Her debut feature RAMONA AT MIDLIFE recently premiered at Geena Davis’s Bentonville Film Festival where it played to a sold out house. RAMONA is currently on the festival circuit, screening at Woodstock, Heartland and others.

Brooke’s short film U4G premiered at the Aspen International ShortsFest where it won an Audience Special Recognition award and later played festivals including Toronto Independent Film Festival and Santa Fe Film Festival. ALL SAINTS DAY, a short film she wrote, directed by Will Frears, won Best Narrative Short at SCAD and played at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Brooke’s plays have been produced and developed across the US at theaters including: Primary Stages, The 2nd 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. In the UK, her work has been developed at The Royal Court Theatre, The National Theatre Studio and Pentabus. Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, Backstage Books and Smith & Kraus.

Brooke’s memoir, No Place Like Home, published by Random House and currently on Audible, was called “Highbrow/Brilliant” by New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix. The book made Elle.com’s “Top Ten Summer Reads,” LA Magazine’s summer reading roundup and the EW piece “If You Like GIRLS, You’ll Love …”

Awards and grants include: 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 MacDowell and Yaddo and commissions from Arielle Tepper Productions and CTC in Minneapolis.

Brooke attended Barnard College and is a graduate of The Juilliard School. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, PEN and Honor Roll, an advocacy group for female and female-identified playwrights over 40. Brooke is an alumna of the MCC Playwrights Coalition and New Dramatists.

As a teacher, she was a guest artist in the New York City public school system through MCC Theater, and has taught at NYU Grad Film, Bard College, School of the New York Times, ESPA, Eugene Lang College, UCSB, and Fordham University as well as privately through the “24 With 5 Teaching Collective” which she co-created at New Dramatists. She spent five years as the Director of the Playwrights Unit for MCC Theater’s Youth Company, a free after-school program for NYC youth.