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serena berman
actor · singer · playwright · producer
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FEBRUARY 2026
Started meetings for writers group Under Construction with The Road Theater!
Performing "Make A Mess" by Shaina Taub at 54 Below
FEBRUARY 2026
Co-Produced The Big Bang Benefit at Judson Memorial Church, featuring Richard Kind, Ann Dowd, Ira Glass, and more!
JANUARY 2026
A new short I wrote called "45 Minutes" filmed in Los Angeles, produced by Spiral Stairs Entertainment, directed by Joey Ally, starring Olivia Ritchie and Melora Walters.
DECEMBER 2025
I was a producer for The 24 Hour Plays 25th Annual Gala at The Space at Irondale.
SEPTEMBER 2025
The Big Bang, a free monthly cold reading I’m a producer on at Judson Memorial Church, returns for a new fall season.
JULY 2025
Workshopped my new play Group Date with LABrynth Theater Company for their annual intensive.
JULY 2025
Ran the early-career artist program The 24 Hour Plays Nationals with Jake Beckhard at Pace University and CSC.
JUNE 2025
My play The Experiment went up at The Golden Goose in London, produced by Elegy Theatre.
Onstage at The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway at Town Hall
MAY 2025
The Hearth/Leigh Honigman are producing a staged reading of PRICK at The Brick, directed by Seonjae Kim, ft. Molly Bernard, Jesse Aaronson, Julia Greer, and Amanda Centeno.
MAY 2025
Acting in a reading of Osher and the Infinite Curtain by Elise Wien, dir. Will Steinberger, for MAD Company's New Perspective's Festival.
APRIL 2025
My play PRICK is a finalist for The O'Neill's National Playwrights Conference.
APRIL 2025
Performing in Karsten Otto's one act musical slash karaoke party "Karaoke Rex" at ART/NY as part of the RE/VENUE NYC.
MARCH 2025
Helped organize a Jewish Writers Retreat in Hancock, New York via Shara Feit and Moishe House.
MARCH 2025
Produced The 24 Hour Plays Los Angeles at The Hudson Theaters to raise money for wildfire relief.
FEBRUARY 2025
Performed in a reading of Sonya Hayden and Meg Loughran's new musical "For Love or Funny," a female take on The Three Stooges!
"In Performance" shoot for A Dream Play with Artilliers Theater Company
JANUARY 2025
Workshopping my docudrama "Wanna Cyber" at The Bechdel Project with director Jake Beckhard and producer Leigh Honigman.
JANUARY 2025
PRICK is named as a finalist for Fault Line Theater's "Irons in the Fire."
DECEMBER 2024
Guest hosting and sharing pages at new monthly series Big Bang: Works in Progress at Judson Memorial Church.
DECEMBER 2024
Brought All Remaining Assets to Philadelphia for a "Shabbat Play Reading," produced by Esther Cohen and Theater Ariel.
NOVEMBER 2024
Sarna Lapine directs a reading of my play All Remaining Assets, with a fabulous cast including Kyra Sedgwick, Dylan Gelula, Miriam Shor, Sydney Lemmon, Daniel J Watts, and Ann Harada.
NOVEMBER 2024
Acting in a reading of Sofya Levitsky-Weitz's new play Flinching at Atlantic Theater Company.
OCTOBER 2024
Producer for The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway at Town Hall, honoring the inaugural class of The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals.
OCTOBER 2024
Presented an excerpt of a new screenplay for Big Bang: Works in Progress, a new series at Judson Memorial Church.
SEPTEMBER 2024
My play PRICK received an honorable mention for the 2024 Relentless Award.
Reading of All Remaining Assets at
Houghton Hall
SEPTEMBER 2024
Producer for of The 24 Hour Plays: Los Angeles at The Hudson Theaters.
AUGUST 2024
Acting in a reading Ben Schrager's This Is A Mistake directed by Will Steinberger for 'Play Date' at Pete's Candy Store.
JULY 2024
Returned with Jake Beckhard as Program Directors for early career program The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals.
JUNE 2024
Acting in a Clubbed Thumb reading of Untitled Beauty Play by Alexa Derman, directed by Lily Riopelle.
JUNE 2024
Check out a reading of my play The Difference Between Big Girls and Little Girls at The Women in Theater Festival, directed by Rachel Dart.
MAY 2024
Producer on The 24 Hour Plays: New Victory featuring NYC student writers grades 5-12.
APRIL 2024
Acting in a reading of Reid Pope's new play Holocaust Lit! as part of Fault Line Theatre's Irons in the Fire series.
EST Brunch, "Hector and Orson"
by Sofya Levitsky-Weitz
APRIL 2024
Back in the studio to record another voice over commercial for Dawn dish soap.
MARCH 2024
Producer on The 24 Hour Plays: Los Angeles at The Hudson Theaters.
FEBRUARY 2024
Acting in Charlie Oh's play "Breath" in Long Dark Night of the BRUNCH at EST, directed by Jake Beckhard.
JANUARY 2024
Booked a voice over commercial for Dawn dish soap!
DECEMBER 2023
Performing in Sonya Hayden and Jon Hugo Ungar's short musical Crazy But True at "A Play Thing", an evening of short works at pinkFROG cafe.
DECEMBER 2023
Sang "Snow One Else But You" by Sonya Hayden and Alara Magritte at McGuire and Simon's Holiday Salon at Maravel Arts Center.
NOVEMBER 2023
Booked a voice over gig for an upcoming video game.
NOVEMBER 2023
Performing in a short play by Jamie Rubenstein for "Quick + Dirty" at Brick Aux, directed by Daniel Krane.
OCTOBER 2023
I was a producer on The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway at Town Hall, honoring Warren Leight.
SEPTEMBER 2023
Less Than Rent Theater is producing a reading of my play Yankees at 59e59.
STAG Mondays @ Chinatown Soup
AUGUST 2023
Catch me in David Rosenberg's new play What Else Is True, produced by Egg & Spoon, at ART/NY Theaters.
JULY 2023
Jake and I are thrilled to be running The 24 Hour Hour Plays: Nationals, a free early career professional intensive in partnership with Pace University with an Off-Broadway production at CSC.
JUNE 2023
Produced The 24 Hour Musicals at Classic Stage's Lynn F Angelson Theater.
JUNE 2023
Performed an excerpt of Shara Feit's little lives for an interfaith pro-choice event at Hitchcock Presbyterian Church.
MAY 2023
Proud to support the WGA strike with a new round of The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues.
MAY 2023
Performing in a reading of Martine Handelman Duffy's play Sisters at Midnight at NYU’s Bronfman Center.
APRIL 2023
Acted in a closed reading of Shara Feit's new play High School Dybbuk.
MARCH 2023
Excited to be evolving the virtual model with The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues - Swings and Understudies edition.
JANUARY 2023
Workshopped my new play PRICK with The Hearth, directed by Seonjae Kim.
Ars Nova Retreat (featuring mumus)
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 a Co- 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.
Reading of a musical by
Ryan Scott Oliver
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.
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Roommate From Hell podcast
(cast & crew)
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, "Eggs n Bakey"
by Jake Brasch
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.
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.
Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival (w/ Jake Beckhard)
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!
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.
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.
'I'm Alive' by Sofya Levitsky-Weitz,
7x7 at The Tank
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 Jake Beckhard.
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.
'Plaza Suite' at Food for Thought Productions,
w/ Dick Cavett and Louise Lasser
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.
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.
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.
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
Acting in a workshop of Amy Gijsbers van Wijk's new play Morbid Obesity Surprise Intervention Birthday Party with Joust Theatre Company.
The Experiment reading at Ars Nova
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.
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.
Nightmare Before Insumnium (by Francesca Pazinokas, dir. Felicia Lobo)
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!
Producing The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway
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!
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!
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.
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