mer at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference in New
London, Conn., through a commissioning grant from
the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. It is direct-
ed in Chicago by Anna Shapiro, Steppenwolf associate
artist and includes a hip-hop, klezmer-influenced score.
Berman, the author of nine full-length plays and
assorted shorts, has had her work read, workshopped
and produced across the United States and in London.
Her 10-minute play Dancing With the Devil, a co-
winner of the Heideman Award at Actors Theater of
Louisville and presented at Louisville's 1999 Humana,
Festival, was included in four anthologies and nominat-
ed for an American Theatre Critics Association award.
Brooke Berman
The playwright, who teaches creative writing, has
been recognized with a Helen Merrill Award, two
Francesca Primus awards, two Lecomte du Nuoy
awards and a Berrilla Kerr Foundation Grant as her
work has traveled to the Denver Center Theater
Company, the Hourglass Group in New York City
and Ohio Theater among many other venues.
Berman, the daughter of Marilyn Berman of
Bloomfield Hills, also is working on the play The Triple
Happiness, to premiere in New York City next year, and
a young-adult novel, Comfort.
— Suzanne Chessler

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Until We Find Each Other runs at the Steppenwolf
Merle Reskin Garage Theatre, 1624 N. Halsted,
Chicago, most Thursdays-Sundays through Nov. 24.
$12. (312) 335-1650.

tion. The second, a Ladino selection, is a Jewish ver-
sion of the Christmas story using the legend of the
star in terms of Abraham.
Cohen, an international performer, conductor and
writer-commentator, will introduce the concert with a
one-hour lecture about the cultural and musical cli-
mate of medieval Spain.
The Boston Camerata, founded in 1954, was associ-
ated with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for 20
years. Since 1968, Cohen has directed the ensemble's
teaching, research, recording and concert activities and
taken the troupe to many countries, including Israel.
Camerata Mediterranea is the European-based sister
ensemble founded in 1990 by Cohen, whose arrange-
ments of early American tunes provided the inspira-
Joel Cohen
tion for much of the score of the film Geronimo.
The mission of Camerata Mediterranea is to explore
the early music repertoires of the Mediterranean basin
with the help of musicians who have personal, musical
and linguistic roots in the geographic area.
"I respect musical traditions as something to be
shared," says Cohen, a lutenist who appears with other
artists. "The history of medieval Spain teaches how the
Christian, Muslim and Jewish cultures interacted, and I
think it's in everybody's interest to find that feeling now."
— Suzanne Chessler

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