[1] Employed at the time in the operator service at Bell in Trois-Rivières, she had herself transferred to Montreal in order to study with Sita Riddez.
She then produced a few plays at the School of Fine Arts (École des Beaux-Arts), notably Les Péchés dans le hall by Félix Leclerc.
It also performed Samuel Beckett, August Strindberg, Alfred Jarry, Eugène Ionesco, Roland Dubillard [es; fr; gl; ht; no], Roger Vitrac, Arthur Kopit,[1] Tennessee Williams (Summer and Smoke - Été et fumée) and demanding works such as Magie rouge by Michel de Ghelderode.
[4] In 1962, while producing Le Jugement de Dieu, a piece based on a poem written by Antonin Artaud, the director of L'Égrégore had a falling out with her troupe.
[6] "L’Égrégore consistently put forward what we had rarely seen before in Quebec: visually daring theatrical worlds, in the vein of what was cutting edge in the fine arts," said Paul Lefebvre, director and drama teacher.
Berd played the role of the caretaker in the film A Special Day (Una Giornata particolare) by Ettore Scola (1977), alongside Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
Back in Quebec, she worked for a year as a waitress in a restaurant, then landed a job as a script girl for Gordon Sheppard on the set of Eliza’s Horoscope.
[2] She participated in La Nef des sorcières, a collective creation which premiered at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde on March 5, 1976.