Director of Theatre at the University of Houston, founder and Producing Director of the Houston Shakespeare Festival, co-founder and producer of the Children’s Theatre Festival, Dr. Berger also co-founded the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America and served as its first president.  He has directed over ninety productions on the UH campus, as well as over twenty-seven productions for the Shakespeare Festival, including King Lear, Hamlet, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth. He  has also been represented by plays he has directed throughout the city, notably at the Alley Theatre, where he served as associate artist, with such productions as T Bone ‘N Weasel, All in the Timing, and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.  As Artistic Consultant at Stages Repertory Theatre, he directed Edward Albee’s All Over, with Mr. Albee in attendance, The Substance of Fire, A Kind of Alaska and A Delicate Balance, with Jerome Kilty. At Theatre Under the Stars, he directed the fortieth anniversary production of My Fair Lady with Noel Harrison. Dr. Berger serves on the board of London’s Shakespeare’s Globe and is the recipient of the Mayor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution by a performing Artist.  He received the university’s highest honor, the Esther Farfel Award and was recently named a Moore’s Professor. In 1997 Dr. Berger was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Theatre.