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Peter J Bergman Biography (1946-)

Addresses: Office: 18 Thompson Street, New York, NY, 10013; Agent: Sheldon Lubliner, clo News & Entertainment Agency, 230 W. 55th Street, New York, NY, 10019.

Mr. Bergman has worked as a house manager (Jacques Brel, Peg O'My Heart), a producer (performing arts festivals at the Library at Lincoln Center), a music consultant to the Lincoln Center Repertory Company; he built thebreakable props for The Royal Family on Broadway and on its tour.

Nationality

American

Occupation

actor, composer, sound designer, director, writer, teacher

Birth Details

April 29, 1946

New York

Famous Works

• Non-Theatrical Career
• File clerk, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, 1963; various positions, The Port Authority of New York, 1964-68.
• Principal Stage Work, Acting--Debut
• Neighborhood kid, Street Scene, summer stock package, 1951.
• Principal Stage Appearances, Acting
• Timothy, A Girl Called Kilmeny, West Side Theatre for Children, NY, 1970; The Man Who Ate People Raw, NY Theatre Ensemble, 1974; Buck's Mother, By Which We Play, Berkshire Theatre Festival, 1982.
• Principal Stage Work, Directed
• Tosca, Monteverdi Repertory Singers, 1972; The Whole Megillah, Amas Repertory, NY, 1971; Caesar and Cleopatra, Amas Repertory, 1972; Widower's Houses, Cyrano Repertory, 1974; The Man Who Ate People Raw, I want to Be with you, The Holy Cross, Triple Threat, NY Theatre Ensemble, 1974; By Which We Play, Berkshire Theatre Festival, MA, 1982.
• Principal Stage Work, Sound Design
• A Tide of Voices, South Street Seaport, 1976; How He Did It, Sharon Playhouse, CT, 1979; Monsieur Ribadier's System, Hartman,Stamford, CT, 1979; A Safe Place, Berkshire Theatre Festival, 1982; Q.E.D., 78th Street Theatre Lab, 1983; The Palace of Amateurs, Vampsand Rideouts, A thousand Clowns, The Animal Kingdom, Sunrise at Campobello. Berkshire Theatre Festival, 1983.
• Plays, Produced
• The Whole Megillah, Amas Repertory, NY, 1971; Family Circle, Neuestheatre, Munich, Germany, 1974; Ragtime and Romance Review, Library for the Performing Arts, 1978; The Final Word, Playwrights Ink (reading) at Wonderhorse, NY, 1980.
• Plays, Unproduced
• Jane Eyre (musical); The Italian Caprice; I Never Come to These Places; Wedding A.M.; The Goodbyes Again (musical libretto).
• Compositions--Songs
• "Chip, Chip Chipermonkey" for production of A Thousand Clowns, Berkshire Theatre Festival; "The Hypochondriacs."
• Screenplay
• Sara; Lullabye.
• Books
• co-author, The Films of Jeannette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy, 1975.
• Articles
• Gay News: New York Notes; ARSC Journal; Library Journal; M.L.A. Notes;Washington Market Review; The Dictionary of American Biography; Encore Magazine.
• Theatre-Related Career
• Researcher, Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, New York. 1968-78; editorial director, Ticket Connection Magazine, 1981-83; teacher, Acting/Playwriting, Amas Repertory, NY; producer, WOR-Radio, NightTalk program on the first 50 years of Film Music; coordinator-key speaker, "Musical Theatre on Record," Musical Theatre in America Conference, C. W.Post College, NY, 1982.