Chris Berger

Actor, Director, Stage Manager, Properties

Chris Berger is an Actor and Performer from Kansas City and moved to Nebraska in 2015.  You may have seen him in the Omaha Community Playhouse's production of A Christmas Carol.  From 2016-2018 and also in 2021, he played Bob Cratchit, and in 2019 he was the Spirit of Christmas Present.  Chris has played King Arthur in Spamalot, Harold Hill in The Music Man, Fagin in Oliver!,  and Michael (#2) in I Do I Do I Do I Do!, and Nick in Making Spirits Bright (2020), and Rod in Calendar Girls (2019) and  at the Lofte Community Theatre.  He was also the Narrator in the play, Who Shot Liberty Valance (2017) at the Omaha Community Playhouse.  Chris also played Sam in Mamma Mia! (2019) at the Performing Arts  Repertory Theatre. 

Awards
Chris was nominated for Outstanding Actor in a Musical for Mamma Mia! in 2020 from the OEAA Omaha Entertainment Awards, and in 2016 he was nominated for the Bill Bailey Award at the Omaha Community Playhouse for his role as Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol.

Chris was also awarded the Lofte Community Theatre's 2022 Backstage Volunteer Award for Stage Management, Assistant Director and other assistance behind the scenes for their 2022 Season. 

Chris was also recently nominated for Broadway World's  2023 "Best Supporting Actor in a Play" for The Mousetrap.  He was also recently nominated for "Outstanding Prop Design" for Doublewide Texas (2023) by the OEAA Omaha Entertainment Art Awards.

Recent Work 
Some of his recent projects have been in the Omaha Film Festival (2020-2023), the Omaha Fringe Festival (2020-2024).  And the 2022 Fright Fest with Omni Arts Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as the staged reading of Love Is?  (2022) at Chanticleer Theatre at PACE.

Chris has recently directed Mix and Machinate (2023) for the First Flight Festival (Angels Theatre Company) in Lincoln, NE. 

His Assistant Directing credits have been, The Diary of Anne Frank (2022),  Noises Off (2022),  and Behind Every Bush (2023). He also was the Assistant Director of Wit at the Lofte Community Theatre (2023).

Chris' most recent acting roles have been "Baby" in the Lofte Community Theatre's Doublewide Texas (2023), and Doublewide Christmas.  In 2023, he was also in  W!t, The Mousetrap, 9 to 5,  and The Nerd . He was in the Lofte's 2022 Christmas Production of  Every Christmas Story Ever Told and Then Some. He is  also a frequent performer for the past several years in the Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre  at the Lofte.

Chris also has been involved and Props and Stage Management for the Lofte Community Theatre's Nosies Off (2022), Every Christmas Story Ever Told and Then Some (2022) and Doublewide Texas. (2023), The Nerd (2023), W!t (2023), The Mousetrap (2023), The Nerd (2023), Doublewide Christmas (2023), Sunshine Express (2024), and Radium Girls (2024).

Chris occasionally writes for Appearing Locally, which is part of the LTA (Lincoln Theatre Alliance).  And you may have also seen him in local Omaha commercials!