Berg, Maureen Kane
Maureen is a Board Member of the New Musical Theatre Exchange (NMTE: www.nmte.org) — a nonprofit designed to bring together committed librettists, lyricists and composers to develop new works of musical theater in the Twin Cities and beyond. Maureen’s most recent work — A House Divided: An Intimate Musical of the Lincoln Presidency — is a collaboration with Michael J. Salmanson and Thomas C. Berg. A grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council supported two live concert performances of the piece in 2021 at the Minnesota History Center (St. Paul) and Beard’s Plaisance (Minneapolis). It received its world premiere production in May 2018 in Narberth, Pennsylvania. The Bluegrass Opera Company of Lexington, Kentucky selected it for its Early Stages series and produced three readings in 2017. NMTE sponsored three Staged Readings in the Twin Cities in 2015-16.
Maureen’s musical comedy Got It Made and its one-act version, (Almost) Got It Made, have been performed in theaters from Georgia to Washington State and published by Heuer Publishing. Maureen developed and co-wrote two musical comedy revues for The Public Offenders, a troupe that performed at Zanies Comedy Club in Chicago. Her short plays Decomposition, Hopkins Extraordinary Travel, Lawyers In Love, and A Bug In Your Ear have been featured in multiple regional theater festivals. She has written, directed, and produced musical comedy pieces for major corporate events and directed Dido and Aeneas and Orpheus and Eurydice for Garden of Song Opera. Maureen’s twenty+ years as a practicing lawyer have given her insights into the workplace and other human dynamics that inspire her characters and situations.
Maureen is a proud member of The Playwrights’ Center, The Dramatists Guild, and Writer Rung (www.writerrung.blogspot.com).