Charles Berliner

Charles Berliner has designed Scenery and Costumes for Entertainment Industry mediums,inclusive of plays, musicals, film, television, dance theatre and improvisational theatre. While he has been the Costume Designer for only one Feature Film (Haunts 1977), as well as several episodes during four seasons of the internationally acclaimed PBS Television Anthology Series, VISIONS, he is primarily known for his Theatrical Designs created for the Live Performing Arts. A selection of Regional Theaters for which he has designed include: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, and The Kennedy Center.In addition, Mr. Berliner was the Resident Scenery and Costume Designer for the legendary "UCLA Dance Department" for ten years; The Costume Designer for the New York based, "Daniel Lewis Dance Repertory Company" and the Los Angeles based, "Rudy Perez Dance Theatre." Among many public recognitions for his work: He was nominated as a Costume Designer for an American Theatre Wing Design Award in 1996, for "The National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD)" New York engagement of "An Italian Straw Hat," and he is one of only a few recipients of a "Design Arts Fellowship for Theatrical Design" from the "National Endowment for the Arts (NEA-1981)." His Theatrical Designs have been included in several national and international exhibitions.