Dan Berkowitz
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1949 - 2017
Occupation
Playwright, Activist
Description
Playwright who served as co-chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and was a former co-chair of the Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board. Former Theatre Critic for the Los Angeles Post and President, Interarts Creative Incorporated. Member of the Council of The Dramatists Guild of America, the professional association of playwrights, composers, and lyricists. He also was a former president of the Tom of Finland Foundation. His plays and theatre performances include his one-man show, “Crime and Punishment: The Musical” (2009), “Pretty” (2010), “There’s No Place Like Hollywood!” (Ovation Award nominee for Best Musical), “Miami Beach Monsters”, the revue “A… My Name Is Still Alice”, “Skirting the Issues”, the musical revue “Tables for Two”, “Bodysurfing in the Sea of Contagion”, and “Simply Divine”. His play “Fierce” was one of five plays by LGBTQ authors that ALAP commissioned for a reading at West Hollywood’s 2019 One City One Pride arts festival. Scriptwriter for The Movie Channel.
