Background
Berman was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a father who was a stockbroker and gambler and a mother who was a pianist and publicist.
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Smashing
(Twenty-one-year-old It-Girl Abby and her plucky best frie...)
Twenty-one-year-old It-Girl Abby and her plucky best friend, Clea, embark on a spur-of-the-moment revenge trip to London - Abby, in pursuit of the young novelist who has cannibalized her in his literary debut and Clea desperately seeking Madonna. "... Brooke Berman's delicious literary comedy ... Twisted obsession is just one of the themes that Berman navigates with skill and humor in this sharp satire. In addition, her eloquent, self-aware characters mull over issues of hero-worship and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, as it relates to fact and fiction: Seeing oneself refracted in a novel can lead to an identity crisis for the subject ... Berman's tale, which wriggles between past, present and the sub-Nabokovian world of the book ... this hip skewering of sexual and literary politics is more than just a pose." -David Cote, Time Out New York
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Hunting And Gathering by Brooke Berman (2009-01-01)
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The Liddy Plays
(This collection includes four interrelated short plays: L...)
This collection includes four interrelated short plays: LIDDY AND THE MAD HATTER, REUNION AT THE FIN DE SIECLE, SELF-RELIANCE, and WINTER WITH TAMBOURINE BOY. THE LIDDY PLAYS follow Liddy and Emerson, an enigmatic brother and sister, as they confront the death of their mother, fall in love with dangerous people, learn to meditate, and remember the past. "I am extremely taken and impressed with her work and find everything she writes to be infused with a most intriguing and original voice ... I think Brooke is a first rate talent and will distinguish herself in the American theater." -Christopher Durang "Brooke's plays are personal and intimate, even naked. They are funny and brave, loose and incisive, full of messy revelations and brilliant insights." -Todd London, Artistic Director, New Dramatists NYC "Ms Berman has a vigorous interest in turning over the rocks in contemporary relationships to find what is growing underneath." -The New York Times "Twisted obsession is just one of the themes that Berman navigates with skill and humor." -David Cote, Time Out "Brooke Berman has proven herself a playwright to watch." -CurtainUp
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Hunting And Gathering
(Four New Yorkers seek shelter, both physical and spiritua...)
Four New Yorkers seek shelter, both physical and spiritual, in a variety of temporary abodes and in one another in this dark comedy.
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The Liddy Plays by Brooke Berman (2012-08-31)
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The Triple Happiness
(On the verge of the millennium, a strange teenaged prophe...)
On the verge of the millennium, a strange teenaged prophetess obsessed with New Wave music invites a suburban family and the raunchy movie star who has crashed in on their holiday to join her as she welcomes The New World. "After her recent success with SAM AND LUCY at the Summer Play Festival, Brooke Berman has proven herself a playwright to watch. Her latest, THE TRIPLE HAPPINESS, doesn't disappoint. It's a slyly funny, thought-provoking piece ... THE TRIPLE HAPPINESS is a home run ..." -CurtainUp "Ms Berman fractures her storyboard with abandon, jump-cutting among characters and between inner and outer dialogue fearlessly, as she did in her play SMASHING ... And the exchanges are full of wit ..." -Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times
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Brooke Berman
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Berman moved to New York to attend Barnard College, where she graduated in 1992. She later attended the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School, which she completed in 1999. She recently completed a seven-year residency at New Dramatists, where she served on the Board of Directors and developed countless plays.
Career
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. Her memoir, Number Place Like Home, was published by Random House in June, 2010. She was raised in Detroit and Chicago.
As an educator, Berman co-created the “24 With 5 Teaching Collective” at New Dramatists and spent five years as the Director of the Playwrights Unit for Master Control Console Theater’s Youth Company, a free after-school program for New York City youth.
The play was singled out by Mel Gussow in The New York Times and called "the most chilling of the short plays" by Martin Kohn in the Detroit Free Press. lieutenant has been published in numerous anthologies.
Her short play "Defusion" has been produced in numerous festivals and included in Christine Jones’s "Theater for One" project Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing Incorporated., cripts, Backstage Books and Smith & Kraus.
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book
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Smashing
(Twenty-one-year-old It-Girl Abby and her plucky best frie...)
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The Triple Happiness
(On the verge of the millennium, a strange teenaged prophe...)
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The Liddy Plays
(This collection includes four interrelated short plays: L...)
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Hunting And Gathering
(Four New Yorkers seek shelter, both physical and spiritua...)
- Hunting And Gathering by Brooke Berman (2009-01-01)
- The Liddy Plays by Brooke Berman (2012-08-31)
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Smashing
