Alan Berks

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Alan Berks, co-Artistic Director of Wonderlust Productions, recently adapted and directed a new version of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author set on a reality television show set and a political duel set in Duluth, MN, The Great Divide. Other past productions include Goats (nominated for a 2006 New York Innovative Theatre Award); Everywhere Signs Fall and Almost Exactly Like Us (Gremlin Theatre); Music Lovers (Workhaus Collective); and Ringtone and How to Cheat (Alan Berks & Company).  Other awards include: Minnesota State Arts Board; Runner-Up, Star Tribune’s Best Playwright in Minnesota 2013; MacDowell Colony Fellow; and Jerome Fellow. He is a proud member of the Minnesota-based Playwrights’ Collective, Workhaus, and in 2012, he was a semifinalist for Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2012 National Playwrights Conference.

Actor, Playwright, Producer, Screenwriter

Alan Berks

Alan Berks, co-Artistic Director of Wonderlust Productions, recently adapted and directed a new version of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author set on a reality television show set and a political duel set in Duluth, MN, The Great Divide. Other past productions include Goats (nominated for a 2006 New York Innovative Theatre Award); Everywhere Signs Fall and Almost Exactly Like Us (Gremlin Theatre); Music Lovers (Workhaus Collective); and Ringtone and How to Cheat (Alan Berks & Company).  Other awards include: Minnesota State Arts Board; Runner-Up, Star Tribune’s Best Playwright in Minnesota 2013; MacDowell Colony Fellow; and Jerome Fellow. He is a proud member of the Minnesota-based Playwrights’ Collective, Workhaus, and in 2012, he was a semifinalist for Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2012 National Playwrights Conference.

Actor, Playwright, Producer, Screenwriter
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