Britt Berke is a NYC-based 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 reviewing the production for The New Yorker, Ken Marks wrote: 

“It’s a rare play that can inspire applause from a line of dialogue and cheers as the lights go down on the final act, odder still for one getting its world première nearly a century after it was written. But that’s what’s happening at the Mint’s production of this remarkable 1931 drama by Betty Smith, directed by Britt Berke.“ 

Select projects: 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); Promenade (The Public Theatre’s Fornés Marathon); w a t c h m e (New York Theatre Workshop at Adelphi); 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, Breaking & Entering, and Cherry Lane Theatre.

Britt is a member of the WP Lab and the Drama League Directors Project; she is an alumna of the 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 of 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 assistant director, Britt worked with Lileana Blain-Cruz on The Skin of our Teeth (Tony nomination) and JoAnne Akalaitis on Mud / Drowning (Obie Award). She is also 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 the Kenneth Janes Prize in Theatre for Outstanding Intellectual and Artistic Achievement.