Alan Berks completed, as writer/director, Ringtone, a collaboratively created site-specific performance in a Minneapolis art gallery with six actors, video, text messenging, cell phones, song, dance, story, character, plot, and a live dj. He has written a bunch of other plays that were a little less complicated, though not much, most of which have been performed in Minnesota. He is also the editor of the online performing arts journal for Minnesota's performing arts, Minnesota Playlist.
Discipline:
Theatre – playwriting
Alan Berks
Discipline:
Theatre – playwriting
Region: Minneapolis, MN
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009
More:
alanberks.com
Studios
Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)
Alan Berks worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…