Berkowitz, Dan

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BERKOWITZ, Dan

PERSONAL:

Father an attorney; mother a teacher. Education: Princeton University, A.B.

ADDRESSES:

Office—c/o Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, 7510 Sunset Blvd., Suite 1050, Los Angeles, CA 90046. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Playwright. Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, chair.

MEMBER:

Dramatists Guild of America (West Coast member liaison).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Salter Prize, Beverly Hills Theater Guild, 2000, for Bodysurfing in the Sea of Contagion.

WRITINGS:

A … My Name Is Still Alice (musical revue), 1992.

Simply Divine (play), 1996.

Miami Beach Monsters (musical), 1999.

(With Shirley Hillard) There's No Place like Hollywood (musical), music and lyrics by Wayne Moore), produced in Hollywood, CA, 2001.

Also author of play Bodysurfing in the Sea of Contagion. Columnist for Dramatist. Contributor to periodicals, including Los Angeles Confidential.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2001, Jana J. Monji, review of There's No Place like Hollywood, p. F40.

New York, December 14, 1992, John Simon, review of A … My Name Is Still Alice, p. 106.

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