[6][7] In 2007, Berkovich graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts with a degree in theatre management.

During her studies, together with the directors Ilya Shagalov, Maxim Myshansky and Alexander Sozonov, she worked on the poetic performance Red Branch [Poetry of Megapolis], shown at Winzavod.

The play, shown in 2012 in at the Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre, used the trial of Joan of Arc as a metaphor for Russian court justice.

[8] That same year, as part of the ‘Platform project’ at the Winzavod, she staged the Russian premiere of Sergej Newski's opera Autland, based on texts and poems by people with ASD.

The production has received mixed reviews from critics, some praised it for a "naive but accurate reflection" of Nevsky's music, while others mentioned ‘the flat drama and the cute but unnecessary directing’.

[11] Among her other works, the theatre community noted her "Sunny Line" based on Ivan Vyrypaev's play.

[13] The play is based on real life stories of Russian women who married radical Islamists and moved to Syria.

[17] According to TV Rain, director Nikita Mikhalkov denounced Berkovich, Petriychuk, and the play "Finist the Brave Falcon" to Aleksandr Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

[18] On May 4, 2023, Berkovich and her colleague Svetlana Petriichuk, also a playwright and a screenwriter, were arrested as suspects in a criminal case on “justifying terrorism” (Public calls for terrorist activities or public justification of terrorism, criminalised under Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia) in “Finist the Brave Falcon”.

[13] The criminal investigation against Berkovich and Petriychuk was opened following a report from the ultra-conservative and far-right “National Liberation Movement of Russia”.

The prosecution relied on an expert examination by Roman Silantyev, who found in the play ‘numerous justifications of ISIS’, and called its feminist approach ‘radical’ and threatening the Russian State.

[14] A group of lead Russian scientists published a letter, which states that the proposed by Silantyev "destructology" science used in his expert examination has features of pseudoscience and cannot be used in forensic expertise.

[32] On 20 November 2023, after the announcement of the death of Berkovich's grandmother Nina Katerli, 23 Russian public figures, including former talk show host Ivan Urgant, Nobel Laureate Dmitriy Muratov, and actors Chulpan Khamatova and Yevgeny Mironov, wrote an open letter to Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova, asking her for her aid in the release of Berkovich so that Berkovich could pay her respects to her grandmother.

[35] She later described the journey as torture because she spent 25 hours in a prisoner transport van without heating, warm clothing, food and water.