“Fred Berman bubbles with the upbeat personality of the dreamer.” The NY Times
“Fred Berman is nothing less than stunning.” New York Magazine
“Berman is Superb.” The Washington Post
New Amsterdam, NBC: “Dr. Harold Gallant”
AT&T - “Let’s Go Yankees”
Reviews
The Normal Heart/The Public Theatre
"As Mickey Marcus, Fred Berman is terrific in the one moment in which Mr. Kramer gives a full spotlight to a view other than his own."
--Ben Brantley, New York Times
"No scene captures the scope of the sadness more completely than one in which Mickey (Fred Berman), who's working the phones of an AIDS hotline, has a breakdown under the weight of all the collective despair. Like Swoosie Kurtz in "Frozen," Berman is superb at evoking the tragic burden of those who have to go on living. "
--The Washington Post
"Fred Berman moves from nervous good-humor to full blown hysteria and paranoia in an arc that is all-too-possible to recognize as real."
--American Theatre Web
"Special mention of Fred Berman's blistering howl of disbelief as Mickey."
--New York Observer
“Fred Berman…is nothing less than stunning."
--New York Magazine
"Fred Berman turns in the other most painfully memorable performance as a man who wants to put up with a friend but finds himself wearing out under AIDS stress."
--TheatreMania.com
“Fred Berman's health care worker driven to an emotional breakdown is a sharply drawn character, crisply performed."
--Variety
"Stonewall veteran Mickey Marcus has a bigger breakdown than any of Weeks', which Fred Berman plays with pitch perfect agony.”
--HX Magazine
"Fred Berman's breakdown as Mickey Marcus is devastating."
--NEXT Magazine
"Fred Berman makes the desperation of an employee of the city's Health Department into another tragedy."
--Newsday
"Fred Berman, as one of Ned's friends and associates, eloquently and emotionally depicts the mainstream gay community's issues with Ned's crusade."
--Talkinbroadway.com
"We should have the opportunity to accord individual performers their own standing ovations - like Fred Berman for his wrenching scene in The Normal Heart.”
--Broadwayworld.com
The Vocal Lords/Theatre at St. Clements
"Mr. Berman bubbles with the upbeat personality of the dreamer. Together [with Ethan James Duff] they invest their finger-snapping harmonizing with considerable charm."
--The New York Times
"Berman is a ball of fire who drives this vehicle whenever he gets the chance. The younger scenes win by a Bensonhurst mile...they have an energy and crispness that bring the material alive, greatly helped by the convincing performance of Berman. It doesn't hurt that this young actor can sing well - the songs are the most pleasing aspect of the production."
--Backstage
"There's another story to be told here, I hasten to add. The Vocal Lords is also a showcase for a remarkable young actor who, I suspect, is going to hit the big time one of these days (soon, I hope). His name is Fred Berman and he is like a breath of fresh air: so alive, so full of himself - and so full of infectious energy and enthusiasm that his unbridles vitality pours over the footlights. Plus, he's a terrific singer...we'll be hearing more from this gentleman."
--NYTheatre.com
Room Service/The Soho Playhouse
“The most admirable performance of the bunch, though, comes from Fred Berman as the director of “Godspeed”; he turns a throwaway moment, when he is called upon to impersonate another character over the telephone, into a show-stopping bit of comedy.”
--The New York Times
“Fred Berman plays director Binion to the hilt with deft timing and slapstick acumen.”
--NYTheatre.com
“Berman’s wild-eyed director adds greatly to the farcical flavor.”
--Backstage
“Berman serves terrifically as his henchman – an aggressive quick thinker, the actor assumes a distinct period style without ever slipping into caricature.”
--Broadwayworld.com
“The standout is Fred Berman, just about perfect as the show’s exasperated director. This verbally dexterous and extremely fit performer (he strips down to boxers and suspenders in one scene) adroitly handles all his slapstick moments, and gets one of the show’s biggest laughs late in Act II, when he takes a call from the White Way’s owner, impersonating Gribble’s manager with potty-mouthed glee.”
--Theatrescene
“It is Berman who ends up stealing the show with his mile-a-minute Noo Yawk talk."
--Offoffonline.com
“But it is Fred Berman who steals every comic moment possible as the director of ‘Godspeed’. Berman is a master gagist and his delivery is impeccable.”
--New York Cool
“Fred Berman as Harry Binion, the director of "Godspeed," seems to have been inspired by the knockabout physical comedy of the Marx Brothers, and he doesn't waste an opportunity to get a laugh, whether putting on multiple layers of clothes or trying to pack in a hurry.”
--News Time Live
“Fred Berman is a manic and clever director, whose imitation of the hotel manager’s supervisor on the telephone stops the show."
--Talk Entertainment
Biloxi Blues/Geva Theatre
"Fred Berman burns with quiet intensity as Arnold, whose unflappable stubbornness is the perfect match for the sergeant."
--Democrat and Chronicle
"Playing off the sergeant ideally is Fred Berman, who embodies the equally unbending, intellectual, Jewish gadfly Arnold Epstein as well as I've seen the role handled. Berman gets the annoying, wiity, and laughably nerdy qualities of Eugene's best friend in the army while never losing the innate strength of the character that makes Eugene admire him."
--City Paper
The Producers/North Shore Music Theatre
"Standouts in the company include Fred Berman as Roger's mincing sidekick Carmen Ghia."
- The Boston Globe
"Fred Berman is delicious as the swishier-than-thou Carmen Ghia."
- Taunton Daily Gazette
"Fred Berman, as Carmen Ghia, follows in a long line of NSMT scene-stealing supporting actors who come in at just the right moment to lift a play when it needs it. The few moments when Ghia first meets Bialystock at the door are hilarious and they never even say anything. Berman and Marland give the play some of its signature scenes and they don’t miss them" - Hamilton-Wenham Chronicle
Of Thee I Sing/Papermill Playhouse
"Fred Berman is hilarious as the French Ambassador.”
--Daily News
"Fred Berman (who was riveting earlier this year in The Public Theatre's revival of The Normal Heart) does a brilliant about-face here, delivering a daring over the top performance as the cartoonish French Ambassador."
--Musicals101.com
"Start with that French Ambassador. Actually start with the actor who plays him, Fred Berman. He owns the stage for most of the second act. When we first encounter Berman he's the tour guide from hell...that touch of inspired Pee Wee Herman emerges full flower, when Berman reappears later in the second act as the French Ambassador. He prances. He preens. He has sudden seizures where he bursts into 'Alouette' and clucks like a chicken. It doesn't make any sense, as satire or anything else, and it's hilarious."
--Bergen Record
"Fred Berman's French Ambassador is the undisputed show stopper. His 'Illegitimate Daughter' and exit are priceless."
--Curtainup.com
"Berman (who owns just about all of his scenes) is giddily over the top."
--Theatremania.com
"Fred Berman, who plays a cliched, diminutive French ambassador with ze correct zest, is the closest the show has to a showstopper."
--NJ Star Ledger
The Tin Pan Alley Rag/The Cleveland Playhouse/Maltz Jupiter Theatre
*Carbonell Nominee for Best Actor in a Musical
"Fred Berman as Berlin brings to life this role with his plucky, Yiddish-inflected ardor. He's a complete package: He sings, he dances, and he energizes."
--The Cleveland Free Times
“The casting of Berman as Berlin was perfect. He looks like him and has the right cocky attitude of a street-smart Jewish boy who had to scratch for every penny he earned.”
--The Jupiter Courier
“Berlin is charmingly played by Fred Berman as a high-key, breezy little terrier of a man.”
--Curtain Calls
“Tin Pan Alley Rag is sheer magic. Fred Berman who portrays Irving Berlin, might never get away from this role – he is Berlin re-incarnated.”
--WJTW 100.3 FM
"Fred Berman is a shoo-in as Irving Berlin, the fast talking, Lower East Side son of Russian immigrants...In the song 'Yiddscher Nightengale,' Berman proves himself as accomplished a vocalist as he is a dramatic actor...he has most of the laugh lines and the more naturalistic dialogue...the short, small bodies Berman has a brash New York accent and a tongue of quicksilver.
--The Cleveland Jewish News