Weights - Gary Bergman

Gary Bergman (Live Accompaniment, Original Music) is a legally blind actor, playwright, sound designer, and composer. He is currently affiliated with an Off-Broadway New York theater company, Theater By The Blind (TBTB). He designed sound for TBTB's Murder In Baker Street and Vassa, was music director for Brecht on Brecht, and acted with TBTB in Ten Little Indians, Brecht on Brecht, Murder In Baker Street, Misalliance, Light Up The Sky, It's Only A Play, and workshops of Hamlet, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice.

Three of his one-acts were given staged readings by TBTB in June, 2000 and two in Love Creek's One-Act Festival in the fall of 2001. He provided the auditory arrangements for the Northwestern University Dance Company in Chicago, the Mary Moody Northern Theater in Austin, Texas and several small independent films in New York. He has performed at the Blind In Theater Festival in Croatia in 2001, 2003, and 2005. Most recently, he created and performed the score and sound effects for the NY premiere of Weights; several of these pieces can be found on the commercial CD release.