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Brooke Berman

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Detroit, MI, The United States

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Drama, Plays, Memoir

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Brooke Berman is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. 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. 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.

Brooke's plays include: Hunting and Gathering, Smashing, Until We Find Each Other, The Triple Happiness, Sam and Lucy, A Perfect Couple, Out of the Water, Casual Encounters, The Jesus Year, Wonderland, The Liddy Plays and others. They have been produced and developed across the US at theaters including:...more Brooke Berman is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. 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. 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.

Brooke's plays include: Hunting and Gathering, Smashing, Until We Find Each Other, The Triple Happiness, Sam and Lucy, A Perfect Couple, Out of the Water, Casual Encounters, The Jesus Year, Wonderland, The Liddy Plays and others. They have been produced and developed across the US at theaters including: Primary Stages, The Second Stage, Steppenwolf, The Play Company, Soho Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Naked Angels, MCC, WET, SPF, New Dramatists, New Georges, The Hourglass Group and the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. 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, The Backstage Books and Smith & Kraus.

Brooke 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 recently completed a seven-year residency at New Dramatists, where she developed countless plays. She has received support for her work from the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo.

Her short play Dancing with a Devil was a co-winner of The Heideman Award at Actors Theater of Louisville in 1999, presented in "Life Under 30" at the Humana Festival, and nominated for an American Theater Critics Best New Play award. It has been published in numerous anthologies. Her short play Defusion is included in the anthology The Backstage Book of New American Short Plays, published by Backstage Books.

Brooke's short film All Saints Day, directed by Will Frears, won Best Narrative Short at the Savannah Film Festival and played at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008.

Brooke has taught as a guest artist in the New York City public school system and at colleges including Eugene Lang, Fordham, and Barnard, 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. She has mentored with the Young Storytellers Foundation in Los Angeles and Young Playwrights in New York.

Brooke attended Barnard College and is a graduate of The Juilliard School. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, PEN and the MCC Playwrights Coalition. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her fiancé, writer Gordon Haber.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME is her first book.(less)

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April 16: reading of MY NEW BEST FRIEND, directed by Trip Cullman, featuring Laura Heisler and others. 7pm, The Lucille Lortel Theater. 121 Christopher Street. More info:http://www.mcctheater.org/litera...

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	No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments 3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Smashing by Brooke Berman (Goodreads Author), Erik Flatmo cover illustration (Illustrator) 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Perfect Couple 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunting and Gathering 2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE TRIPLE HAPPINESS 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chicago Landmark Project by Theatre Seven of Chicago, Brooke Berman (Goodreads Author), J. Nicole Brooks 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Excerpt from NO PLACE LIKE HOME (Biographies & Memoirs)

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Description: An excerpt from the forthcoming No Place Like Home, available for pre-order now, hitting the shelves June 8, 2010!

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Description: An excerpt from the forthcoming No Place Like Home, available for pre-order now, hitting the shelves June 8, 2010!

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Brooke Berman added: Adam, Eve and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Brooke Berman added: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez read in January, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Brooke Berman rated a book 4 of 5 stars Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels read in September, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Fascinating look at John of Patmos's Revelations -- she places in historic/cultural context and examines how this one found its place in the New Testament when there were other books of revelations, by other authors, equally popular. I love Elaine...more
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Brooke Berman rated a book 5 of 5 stars The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Read it in college. Think of it still. Pagels is amazing.
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Brooke Berman rated a book 5 of 5 stars The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Brooke Berman rated a book 3 of 5 stars Freedom by Jonathan Franzen	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“But everything changes. To deny change is to deny life. And the present moment contains miracles. Including an ability to see and receive the new.”
― Brooke Berman, No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational-ethics-conscience

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