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DRAMA CLUB is a coming of age comedy set at my high school, Glenbrook North, the year the John Hughes actors came to observe us. I first got the idea to write this when working with Ally Sheedy 20 years ago. Ally mentioned that while Emilio Estevez was flooded by attention and authograph hounds, she and the two other men went largely ignored by my classmates. I wanted to revist that time through a contemporary lens and shed light on both our teenage dreams and the ways in which we can now see Hughes's portrayal of teen life as limited -- classist, racist and ableist. This is a script that I am currently pitching to production companies. I'm not sure whether or not I'll direct it -- I may be looking to attach a more established director.
Bio
Brooke Berman has written films for Natalie Portman, The Mark Gordon Company, Vox Films, Fugitive and Red Crown. Brooke adapted and directed the short UGGS FOR GAZA which premiered at the Aspen International ShortsFest where it won Audience Special Recognition. ALL SAINTS DAY, a short film Brooke wrote, directed by Will Frears, won Best Narrative Short at the Savannah Film Festival and screened at the Tribeca Film Festival. Brooke’s feature POLLY FREED was chosen to be part of New York Stage and Film’s Screenwriters Lab where it was mentored by Kyra Sedgewick, Zach Helm and Billy Goldberg and selected as part the MOME finance lab for female filmmakers and NYWIFT From Script to Preproduction lab. PF has made it to “second round” for Sundance Screenwriting Labs two years in a row and won Best Screenplay at the Toronto Independent Film Festival. RAMONA AT MIDLIFE, her directorial feature debut, won Best Unproduced Script at the Montreal Independent Film Festival, the Toronto Independent Women’s Film Festival and LA Indies. Brooke’s memoir No Place Like Home is now available on Audible. Her plays, include Hunting and Gathering (Primary Stages), Smashing (The Play Company, The O’Neill) and A Model City (Stacey Mindich Productions), have been produced across the US and internationally at theaters including Steppenwolf, 2nd Stage and Naked Angels.
