Brooke Berman

Early life and education Berman was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a father who was a stockbroker and gambler and a mother who was a pianist and publicist. She was raised in Detroit and Chicago. Berman moved to New York to attend Barnard College of Columbia University,

She later attended the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School, which she completed in 1999.

Career 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 MCC Theater's Youth Company, a free after-school program for NYC youth.

She recently completed a seven-year residency at New Dramatists, where she served on the Board of Directors and developed countless plays. She has received support for her work from the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, and New Dramatists, and commissions from Arielle Tepper Productions and Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis.

Personal life Berman is married to writer Gordon Haber.

Plays Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc., Playscripts, Backstage Books and Smith & Kraus.

Hunting and Gathering (Primary Stages) Smashing (The Play Company, The O’Neill) Until We Find Each Other (Steppenwolf, The O’Neill) The Triple Happiness (Second Stage), Sam and Lucy (SPF, Cleveland Play House) A Perfect Couple (WET), Out of the Water (Cape Cod Theater Project, ARS Nova), and others The Liddy Plays Out Of The Water

Awards Berilla Kerr Award Helen Merrill Award Two Francesca Primus Awards Two LeCompte du Nuoy awards and a commissioning grant from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture