Over 40 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards
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Individual Artist Award from the Peninsula Arts Council 8th Annual Diamond Award
for outstanding achievements and contributions to the arts in San Mateo County.
Presented to Brooke Knight, January 28, 2010
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Berle Davis, Choreographer Emeritus

Berle Davis is choreographer emeritus for Broadway By The Bay. His work is much admired by critics, audience members and performers.

Over the years Berle has choreographed over 150 shows in the Bay Area and has trained many Broadway and National Touring company performers. He has been nominated numerous times for Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle Awards for outstanding choreography, and he has won the Award on eight different occasions.

As a performer, Berle has performed the choreography of Gower Champion (Bye Bye Birdie), Jerome Robbins (West Side Story), Onna White (The Music Man), Eugene Loring (Kiss Me Kate) and Carol Haney (Flower Drum Song). Berle has also been honored by the San Mateo County Arts Council as Outstanding Individual Artist; he has received the Hillbarn Bravo! Award for Outstanding Contributions to Performing Arts in the Bay Area and the Barbara Bladen Porter Award for Achievement in Theatre by the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle.

He is the Founder and Director of Dance Arts Center in San Mateo.