Daniel F. Berkowitz ’70

Dan Berkowitz, one of our artistic stalwarts, died of a heart attack Dec. 10, 2019.

He came to us from St. Peter’s in Jersey City. While at Princeton, Dan belonged to Colonial Club and majored in history. His great loves were Theatre Intime, where he was executive producer; and the Princeton Debate Panel, where he won the Junior Oratorical Medal. He went on to graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dan made a rich career in the entertainment business and was the author of numerous plays and reviews, winning various industry prizes. His one-man show, Crime and Punishment: The Musical, debuted in New York in 2009, and he was co-author of the musical review My Name Is Still Alice, which opened in 1992 and has since been produced in more than 40 states. For years, he returned to Princeton to direct Summer Intime.

Dan served for 10 years as co-chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and was also co-chair of that city’s Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board. He was a member of the Council of the Dramatists’ Guild of America. He was also an active member of Princeton’s BTGALA, hosting several meetings for West Coast members at his residence in West Hollywood.

Dan was a man of many talents who will be sorely missed by those he served and inspired. The vast array of his friends will miss the man who, reporting on a screenplay-research trip to deepest Alaska in our 40th-reunion yearbook, noted “I’m still having an adventure every day.”