Britt Berke

Britt Berke is a director of theatre and film. Her work interrogates love, power, and how these entities are intertwined and revolutionized; often staging delight and spectacle as a means of examining intimacy and taboo. Britt nourishes the development of new work, and reenergizes revivals of plays and musicals.

Britt made her Off-Broadway directorial debut with the World Premiere of Becomes a Woman by Betty Smith (author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) at Mint Theater Company. This six-week engagement at New York City Center Stage II was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Off-Broadway Play.

In 2026, Britt will return to The Mint to direct Harold Brighouse’s character comedy, Zack. Select past productions: I Don’t Trust Adults starring Ruby Karp (in a six-week Off-Broadway run at SoHo Playhouse); Anne Carson’s Antigonick with Torn Out Theater (a company that utilizes selective nudity to promote body autonomy, more via The New Yorker); Springtime (Chautauqua Theater Company); All My Sons (NYU Tisch Grad Acting); Promenade (The Public Theatre’s Fornés Marathon); watch me (New York Theatre Workshop retreat); DOGS (Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep); Scenes with Girls (TheaterLab); FLASH (a musical fundraiser for NourishNYC); Liberian Girl in Brooklyn (Mabou Mines); Round Room (Origin Theater - Best Director nom); and workshops with La MaMa, New York Classical Theatre, and Cherry Lane Theatre.

Britt is currently a Directing Fellow at the NYU Tisch Department of Design for Stage and Film and a member of the WP Lab; she is an alumna of the Drama League Directors Project, Leon Levy Roundabout Directors Group, Mercury Store Directing Intensive, Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellowship, National Alliance for Musical Theatre Directing Observership, and 24 Hour Plays: Nationals. She is a recipient La Femme’s “Woman on the Verge” Award, A.R.T. NY’s Funds for Anti-Oppression Work, and a City Corps Artist Grant. Associate Member, SDC.

Britt’s first short film, SHIPS by Caroline Festa, enjoyed its World Premiere at The SOHO International Film Festival in 2024. She is currently in post-production for The Skin of the Water, which filmed in London last year.

As an associate director, Britt has worked with Lileana Blain-Cruz on The Skin of our Teeth (Tony nomination), JoAnne Akalaitis on Mud / Drowning (Obie Award), and Simon Godwin on The Wild Duck. She is proud to have assisted Austin Pendleton, Jade King Carroll, Tamilla Woodard, Gabriel Vega Weissman, Portia Krieger, Katherine Wilkinson, Alice Reagan, Shannon Sindelar, Kara Strait, and Kara Feely.

Britt graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University, where she received the Kenneth Janes Prize in Theatre for Outstanding Intellectual and Artistic Achievement.