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Norman L. Berman co-composed the score to the Broadway and off-Broadway productions of the musical play, "Strider." He was the first composer to be awarded the Drama Desk award in the category of outstanding music in a play for the 1980 Broadway production. He also served as orchestrator and musical director. "Strider" has subsequently been produced all over the world including regional theaters across the United States. Throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s Mr. Berman served as Composer-in-Residence at the celebrated Circle Repertory Company. He composed music scores for over 20 plays there ranging from premieres by Tennessee Williams, Lanford Wilson, Marsha Norman and Paul Zindel to Shakespearean and Chekhovian classics. He has been commissioned to compose music for most of the prominent regional theaters across the country including, New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Willaimstown Theatre Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Roundabout Theatre, Arena Stage, Folger Theater Company, St. Louis Repertory Company, GeVa Theater, Seattle Repertory Company, Taper Two and many more. Mr. Berman currently serves as Composer-in-Residence for the classical repertory company, A Noise Within, where he has composed scores for some 32 plays ranging from Shakespeare to Thorton Wilder. He received an Ace Award nomination for his score for the film Traveler's Rest, seen on Showtime Cable Network. His other television scores have been heard on PBS, CBS Cable Television ("Kennedy’s Children") and the Discovery Channel. He has also composed music to four mini-musicals with librettist, lyricist Abraham Tetenbaum for the educational touring shows produced by Enrichment Works. He was commissioned by the Chelsea Theatre Center, Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green to co-create and direct "By Bernstein," a musical revue premiering Bernstein's unheard theater music from "Candide," "On the Town," "Peter Pan" and "The Race to Urga." For Manhattan Theatre Club, he conceived and directed the musical revue "Unsung Cole," which premiered two dozen unheard songs by Cole Porter. "Unsung Cole" was subsequently produced by Circle Repertory Theater and many regional theaters across the country. Mr. Berman directed various stage productions for Manhattan Theatre Club, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Westchester Theatre Company and more. He created and directed "Patch, Patch, Patch," a revue which premiered songs by Alan Menken at the West Bank Cafe in New York City