JENIVA BERGER thanks the caricaturist who made her look bright-eyed and very wide-awake (unlike the reality or reviewing a show late at night) despite the masks of comedy and tragedy which look alarmingly like halloween pumpkins.
Despite the flattering absence of age in the sketch, she has been around a long time reviewing theatre on a regular basis for such publications as Toronto Calendar Magazine, the Canadian Jewish News, Scene Changes Magazine - which she served as editor from 1977 to 1981 and Toronto Tonight. Other theatre pieces have appeared in The Guardian and Melody Maker (Great Britain), Touring & Travel Magazine, Canadian Theatre Review and the Toronto Theatre Festival Souvenir Program. She has written extensively on multicultural theatre in Canada for the Canadian Encyclopedia, the Oxford Companion to Canadian Drama and for the book Contemporary Canadian Theatre: New World Visions. She is the Founding President of The Canadian Theatre Critics Association and still serves as the Chair/Coordinator of the annual Nathan Cohen Award for Excellence in Theatre Criticism. She has an M.A. in Drama from the University of Toronto.