Bernard Pomerance (September 23, 1940 – August 26, 2017) was an American playwright and poet whose best known work is the play The Elephant Man.
His first play, High in Vietnam, Hot Damn, was performed at the Interaction Theatre and directed by Roland Rees.
In 2013 Williamstown Theater Festival produced a revival of The Elephant Man, which starred Bradley Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola.
[2] Pomerance first was inspired to write plays by the work of Eugene O’Neill, having seen the original production of Long Day's Journey into Night.
Several of Pomerance’s plays take as their subject politically weighted views of American history, such as Quantrill in Lawrence and Melons, which were both produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company.