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serena berman
actor · singer · playwright · producer
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JANUARY 2023
Workshopped my new play PRICK with The Hearth, directed by Seonjae Kim.
Performing "Make A Mess" by Shaina Taub at 54 Below
JANUARY 2023
Had a blast on the youtube podcast Nostalgia Talk, chatting with James Nobles about some of my work as a child actor.
JANUARY 2023
Thrilled to be officially joining The 24 Hour Plays team as Associate Producer, along with my partner Jake Beckhard!
DECEMBER 2022
Acted in a workshop of Sofya Levitsky-Weitz's play Flinching with The Hearth.
DECEMBER 2022
Did a reading of my play All Remaining Assets through Westport Country Playhouse's New Works Initiative, directed by Liam Lonegan (ended up pivoting to a closed reading, due to COVID).
NOVEMBER 2022
Associate Produced The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway at Town Hall - back live for the first time in 3 years!
OCTOBER 2022
I was a finalist for the DGF Fellowship, with my play Yankees.
AUGUST 2022
Performed another 24H Viral Monologue, "Many Happy Returns" by J. Holtham.
JULY 2022
My play The Difference Between Big Girls and Little Girls is a semi-finalist for the 2022 Princess Grace Award.
"In Performance" shoot for A Dream Play with Artilliers Theater Company
JULY 2022
It's a new twist on Creeky Joint Arts Retreat: "Creeky North"! Up in the Poconos working on Phantasmagoria by Jack Horton Gilbert and a new play of mine (Untitled Group Date).
JULY 2022
Program Managed The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals with my partner Jake Beckhard. What an incredible group of young theatermakers!
JUNE 2022
Booked a VO commercial for Tide - feels good to be recording in a non-closet studio again!
JUNE 2022
Thrilled to be performing in Jake Brasch's EST Brunch musical Eggs n Bakey (fka Wakey Wakey) as the singing, dancing, existentially morbid "Eggs." Role of a lifetime.
JUNE 2022
Acted in another workshop of What Else is True at Playwrights Horizons.
MAY 2022
Booked a VO spot for Hilton SC Radio!
MARCH 2022
My play The Difference Between Big Girls and Little Girls has been named a semi-finalist for the 2022 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and Premiere Stages at Kean's 2022 Play Festival.
MARCH 2022
Acting a workshop of David Rosenberg's new play What Else Is True directed by Jake Beckhard and Adam Coy, produced by Egg and Spoon.
MARCH 2022
My short play "Sense" directed by Bryn Herdrich is going up at HERE Arts Center for New Ambassador's Heartbroke Festival.
JANUARY 2022
Wrote another 24 Hour Play Viral Monologue! Check out the amazing Tessa Albertson and Emma Kikue here.
DECEMBER 2021
Booked a voice over commercial for EZ Cater! Big shout out to DDO NY for being fabulous reps.
DECEMBER 2021
Excited to perform in Karsten Otto's Karaoke Rex at Super Secret Arts! Sadly the show was postponed for COVID reasons, but we'll be back summer 2022!
NOVEMBER 2021
Adorned in goth make up for David Rosenberg's short film It's A Dog, directed by Eli Shapiro. Coming in 2022!
SEPTEMBER 2021
On the producing team for The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues this season! I've now been involved a writer, an actor, and a producer. Clearly I can't stay away from these people.
AUGUST 2021
Couldn't be more thrilled to be back in person with my Play Group pals for Ars Nova retreat. Gearing up for fall meetings!
EST Brunch, "Hector and Orson"
by Sofya Levitsky-Weitz
JULY 2021
Booked an episode of Gossip Girl! Had a blast being back on set post-vax.
JUNE 2021
Acting in a 24 Hour Viral Monologue "The Rental" by Jane Drinkard. Always love getting to act/write/produce with the 24 Hour Plays!
JUNE 2021
Wrote a piece called "Philosophy" for Fault Line Theater's [...] in the time of Corona series starring the amazing Anna O'Donague.
STAG Mondays @ Chinatown Soup
JUNE 2021
Season 2 of comedy/horror podcast Roommate From Hell premieres! I came on as a writer/producer this season in addition to starring as Claire.
MAY 2021
Acting in a virtual reading of Izzy D'Esposito's "AFK" directed by Graham Miller at the INKubator New Play Festival
MAY 2021
First time acting with real people in a while! As a hipster werewolf in Jake Rubin's short "The Newly Dead" - feels like the right way to come back.
APRIL 2021
Booked two radio spots for Dunkin' Donuts! Keep your ears open for my voice on the airwaves.
APRIL 2021
Acted in a virtual reading of Ryan Sartor's multi-cam pilot "On the Bubble" with some funny funny people.
FEBRUARY 2021
Check out my episode of "The Swell" a podcast series by Refracted Theatre Company! Starring Sara Kapner, RJ Vallaincourt, and Anthony Bowdin, directed by Jenna Rossman.
DECEMBER 2020
Pulled another all-nighter writing for the 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues. Watch the fabulous Kelly AuCoin have a public online mental breakdown!
DECEMBER 2020
Talking Hair again on The Original Cast Podcast with Patrick Flynn - this time about a 1970 album of cut songs called DisinHAIRited. Always fun to stretch my musical theater nerd muscles.
Ars Nova Retreat (featuring mumus)
SEPTEMBER 2020
Play Group starts up again! So proud to be a resident artist at Ars Nova, who have been displaying such amazing social, political, and artistic leadership in this chaotic time.
AUGUST 2020
Corkscrew Theater Festival is taking it online this summer! Check out Corkscrew 4.0 to see a virtual piece I made based on my play Yankees with Jake Beckhard, Less Than Rent, and Sheep_eats Wolf.
AUGUST 2020
Exciting updates! I started working with the adult on-camera commercial department at A3 Artists Agency, and DDO New York for voice over.
JULY 2020
So proud to have my piece included in a published collection of The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues! Available digitally or in print.
JULY 2020
Wrote a short play for this month's (Virtual) Rule of 7x7 where I got to film an actor at a cheese farm. The small gifts of virtual theater.
JUNE 2020
Recorded a back-to-school radio spot for Walmart! Involving sassy comments about my professor's inability to use zoom. Very topical.
MAY 2020
Recorded short play Have You Been To The New Harris Teeter? by Patrick Flynn for The Original Cast podcast.
MAY 2020
Acted in a new round of 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues with writer Ted Malawer and director Jack Beckhard.
Reading of a new musical by
Ryan Scott Oliver
MAY 2020
Fuller Road produced a zoom reading of my play The Difference Between Big Girls and Little Girls, directed by Jackson Gay, as a fundraiser for the Homeless Can't Stay Home initiative.
APRIL 2020
Started making video sketches with my talented superstar roommates as we're trapped in our homes. Here's one I wrote (edited by Max Ash - more sketches on his page)
MARCH 2020
My first foray into virtual theater writing for the very first round of 24 Hour Hour Plays Viral Monologues with the fabulous Timothy Douglas. NYT had a great write up on the initiative.
FEBRUARY 2020
Beyond excited to have representation for my writing - Allison Schwartz at Paradigm Talent Agency and Noah Rosen / Lauren Dineley at Writ Large Management. It feels good to have good people in my corner.
FEBRUARY 2020
Very excited to have an evening of my short plays presented at PLAYxPLAY this month. Details to follow, but their events are always free!
FEBRUARY 2020
Performing at EST's February Brunch in Sofya Levitsky-Weitz's hector & orson directed by Kylie M. Brown.
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Roommate From Hell podcast
(cast & crew)
JANUARY 2020
My play The Experiment is getting a reading at Ars Nova as part of their Out Loud series! Thrilled to finally present this play in NYC with director Jake Beckhard and a fabulous cast (Kayli Carter, Ayse Babahan, and Max Reinhardsen). Free reservations here.
JANUARY 2020
Performing in Rule of 7x7 at the Tank with playwright Shara Feit and director Kylie M. Brown.
JANUARY 2020
Starting year two of Ars Nova Play Group! Thrilled to be sharing the loft with this exciting new slate of artists in 2020.
DECEMBER 2019
Wrapped recording on the first half of Roommate From Hell season 2! In addition to acting this season I'm helping out on the writing/producing team. Stay glued to your podcast feed in 2020.
DECEMBER 2019
Playing Kristin in a reading of Strindberg's Miss Julie with Food For Thought Productions.
NOVEMBER 2019
Playing Marya Tolstoy in a reading of A Terrible Saint by Herb Appleman at New Dramatists.
OCTOBER 2019
I am honored and beyond thrilled to be a Semi-Finalist for the 2020 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship with this incredible group of artists.
EST Brunch, "Eggs n Bakey"
by Jake Brasch
OCTOBER 2019
Performing in a new one act competition series called "Show of Shows" at The PIT. Come through and vote us back for November!
OCTOBER 2019
The NYU students at West 4th Stage Company are producing my short play "Trial Period" at 5x10, their short play series inspired by Williamstown's DI Projects.
OCTOBER 2019
Acting in a workshop of Amy Gijsbers van Wijk's new play Morbid Obesity Surprise Intervention Birthday Party with Joust Theatre Company.
SEPTEMBER 2019
My episode of Flying V's new podcast series Paperless Pulp is released! Check out audio zomcom "Apocalypse Airbnb" wherever you get your podcasts.
SEPTEMBER 2019
An excerpt of my new play The Difference Between Big Girls and Little Girls is being read to kick off The Bechdel Group's Fall Reading Series.
SEPTEMBER 2019
Playing Nina in a closed workshop of The Seagull directed by Elisabeth Frankel. A wonderful fall acting playground!
AUGUST 2019
After an awesome production at Williamstown, The Dark made it to the finals of the Samuel French OOB Festival at The Vineyard! Had a fantastic week meeting a ton of incredible writers.
AUGUST 2019
Spend an incredible week in Heathsville, VA on retreat at the Creeky Joint (generously sponsored by Kitty and Dan Beckhard) writing a new comedy and acting in an adaptation of The Waves by Virginia Woolf. Can't wait to bring our work to the city!
Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival (w/ Jake Beckhard)
AUGUST 2019
Away on retreat with Ars Nova Play Group! Working on a new play (when I'm not swinging on a swing jacuzzing in a jacuzzi or exploring this amazing house).
AUGUST 2019
"Dog Play" got performed at The Brick for the "Boscoe Barles Bestival" starring REAL DOG Boscoe Barles and three excellent human actors. Check us out on the local news.
AUGUST 2019
Acting in a workshop of Catherine Weingarten's millennial adaptation of The Decameron, The World's Ending and Maybe That's Kinda Hot at The Tank.
JULY 2019
My play The Splitting (fka The Experiment) is being developed through Westport Country Playhouse's New Works Initiative - Jake Beckhard is directing the stellar Susannah Perkins, Mirirai Sithole, and Harrison Unger.
JULY 2019
Workshopping my full length play Études with Esther M. Cohen up at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Couldn't ask for a more beautiful place to make theater.
JULY 2019
My short play The Dark is going up at Williamstown Theatre Festival, directed by Esther M. Cohen. If you don't happen to be around the Berkshires you can catch it at The Vineyard Theatre later this summer!
JUNE 2019
Performing in a short play at New Wave Theater Collective's annual Pride event, written by Audrey Lang and directed by Graham Miller. Happy pride everyone!
'I'm Alive' by Sofya Levitsky-Weitz,
7x7 at The Tank
JUNE 2019
On the producing team again for this year's 24 Hour Musicals at The Signature. Check out this insane team of people make theater magic in 24 hours!
JUNE 2019
Playing a high school choir kid in Lyndsey Bourne's I Was Unbecoming Then, with music by Sam Kaseta. The workshop is directed by Ilana Kanin, produced by Joust Theatre Company.
MAY 2019
My short play The Dark was selected for the 2019 Samuel French OOB Festival! Catch it at The Vineyard Theatre on August 21 (tickets are on sale now) - fingers crossed we move on to the finals!
APRIL 2019
Got to do a reading of my brand new play The Difference Between Big Girls and Little Girls for my writer's group The Frauds' reading series. Thank you to my wonderful cast Heidi Armbruster, Georgia Cohen, Marlowe Holden, and Andrea Negrete!
APRIL 2019
Went to DC for Flying V's insane 24 Hour Awesome-a-Thon and got to hear a preview of their new anthology podcast series Paperless Pulp. My episode is a zom-com called "Apocalypse Airbnb" - coming to your earholes soon.
'Plaza Suite' at Food for Thought Productions,
w/ Dick Cavett and Louise Lasser
MARCH 2019
Doing a staged reading of A View From The Bridge with Food For Thought Productions! I'm so lucky to get to work with fabulous theater vets like Charles Turner and Kit Flanagan.
FEBRUARY 2019
I'm joining the writers room for season two of the podcast I co-star in, Roommate From Hell! It's funny stuff and I can't wait to be a part of shaping where it goes next.
JANUARY 2019
Beyond thrilled to be joining Ars Nova's Play Group, 2019-2020! I cannot wait to develop some new work alongside this incredible team of artists.
JANUARY 2019
Performed in a 29-hour reading of The Hive by Catherine Weingarten, directed by Ben Stockman and presented by their new company Candy for Breakfast.
DECEMBER 2018
Had a great time in a 29-hour reading of Eliana Pipes beautiful new play Dream Hou$e' at INTAR, directed by Cristina Angeles, presented by Checkmark Theatre Company
DECEMBER 2018
Exciting news! I've started working with the youth commercial / VO department at Abrams Artists Agency. Updated info on my contact page!
Nightmare Before Insumnium (by Francesca Pazinokas, dir. Felicia Lobo)
DECEMBER 2018
Wrote a short play overnight inspired by holiday Mad Libs for the theater company West of 10th - highlights included a teenager named "Sticky Tim" and a high school called "St. Rachel's Mom."
NOVEMBER 2018
Doing a reading of Catherine Weingarten's new "angsty girly comedy" called I Wanttt A Unicorn Frappe (which, honestly, now I do)
OCTOBER 2018
On the producing team for the 24 hour Musicals on Broadway - an incredible organization raising money for The Lilly Awards
OCTOBER 2018
Crazy Halloween fun as widowed former tightrope walker Irina Sullivan in a spooky interactive theater piece with Insomnium Theatre Company - still washing the fake blood out of my hair.
OCTOBER 2018
Playing "Alpha" in a workshop of Jack Gilbert's new sci-fi play Severance at The Tank.
OCTOBER 2018
Headed to Montréal to see Absolu Théâtre perform Sex Friends at festival tout' tout court - they had seven days to translate the play into french, performing staged readings in both languages. This is honestly the treat of all treats.
Jaywalk Cop (web series)
OCTOBER 2018
Performed in a reading of Ryan Scott Oliver's incredible musical 35MM - videos coming soon!
OCTOBER 2018
Less Than Rent produces a workshop of my play Études - finally get to see it on its feet!
SEPTEMBER 2018
Back in the studio recording more Roommate From Hell with co-star Natalie Walker - episodes are being regularly released, check us out!
AUGUST 2018
Sex Friends makes it to the finals at the Samuel French OOB Festival! We had an incredible time performing and watching a lot of amazing short plays.
The Experiment reading at Ars Nova
JULY 2018
Torn Out Theater (the masterminds behind Naked Shakespeare in the Park) is performing my short play Sharks and Minnows at their sex/gender/body themed reading series "Ripped Up."
JUNE 2018
Set it Up premieres at the AMC Lincoln Center just before it's released on Netflix June 15. And the reviews look great!
JUNE 2018
Less Than Rent does a closed reading of my play Études - can't wait for this play to come into the world.
MAY 2018
My short play Sex Friends is selected for the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival this year! Click on the my name on their site for more info about my play and a little interview.
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