Rotary Arts Conversations
Join us for an in-depth discussion with People's Light Producing Artistic Director Zak Berkman. Zak is a multifaceted artist – a writer, composer, director, and dramaturg – who has decades of experience producing theater and developing new plays and musicals.
Zak Berkman
Zak Berkman has had a successful 30-year career as a playwright, composer and director, including his work on and off-Broadway productions. Berkman has decades of experience producing theater and developing new plays and musicals, including the world and U.S. premieres of Mud Row by Dominique Morisseau and Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole by Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor, among others.
Prior to joining People’s Light in Malvern, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, Berkman was Associate to Broadway producer Margo Lion, and the Founding Executive Director of Artistic Programming with Epic Theatre Ensemble, a multi-award winning Off-Broadway theater company.
Berkman’s own plays include The Harassment of Iris Malloy, Beauty on the Vine, and A Breath Short of Breathing. He was the co-author/composer of Such Things As Vampires, which received a Barrymore Award for original music. Berkman joined People’s Light as Associate Artistic Director in 2011 and was promoted to Producing Artistic Director in 2022.