Bernard Pomerance
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Bernard Pomerance is an American born playwright based in London. He is best known for his play The Elephant Man
Bernard Pomerance was born in Brooklyn in 1940. He is a very private man and there is very little information about his parents, his childhood, his early education, or his personal life.
It is known however that he had two children with English Author Sally Belfrage (Freedom Summer, Un-American Activities etc).
Pomerance was a student at the University of Chicago, but then moved to London when he was in his early thirties. After moving to England, he began working with small, innovative theatre groups. With director Roland Rees, he founded the Foco Novo theatre group, which produced Pomerance’s early plays