Brooke Berman wrote and directed the feature RAMONA AT MIDLIFE which premiered at Bentonville Film Festival and went on to play Woodstock, Heartland, Mystic (Audience Choice), Omaha, NYITFF, Pasadena International, Florida and Ridgefield Independent (Best Ensemble, Fountain Award) Film Festivals. Brooke's short film U4G premiered at the Aspen International ShortsFest where it won Audience Special Recognition. U4G also screened at Toronto Shorts Fest and Santa Fe Film Festival. ALL SAINTS DAY, a short film Brooke wrote, directed by Will Frears, won Best Narrative Short at the Savannah Film Festival and played at the Tribeca Film Festival. She adapted her play SMASHING for Natalie Portman and has written features for The Mark Gordon Company, Vox Films, Red Crown, and Fugitive Films. Currently she is in pre-production for her directorial feature debut, POLLY FREED. PF was chosen to be part of New York Stage and Film’s Screenwriters Lab in 2018 and selected as part the MOME (Mayor’s Office of NYC) inaugural finance lab for female filmmakers and NYWIFT From Script to Preproduction lab. PF has made it to “second round” for Sundance Screenwriting Labs two years in a row.
Brooke's plays have been produced and developed across the US at theaters including: Steppenwolf, Soho Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Naked Angels, MCC, Primary Stages, The Humana Festival, and The Bay Area Playwrights Foundation. Internationally, her work has been developed at The Royal Court Theatre, The National Theatre Studio and Pentabus and produced at Red Stitch Theatre in Australia. Her play Hunting and Gathering was named to the Best of 2008 by New York Magazine.
Brooke is the author of three nonfiction books including the memoir, No Place Like Home, published by Random House, available on Audible. She has received numerous awards and grants for her plays and support from MacDowell and Yaddo.
She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Barnard College, where she majored in American Studies. She is a proud alumna of New Dramatists and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
More information: www.brookeberman.net
