Michael Bergmann

Michael Bergmann is an American writer, director, and producer.

in Latin from Columbia University in 1975 and studied film concurrently at N.Y.U.

[citation needed] He is married to the sculptor Meredith Bergmann.

[1] He is also the great-grandson of Berta Fanta, a Prague salonière whose circle included Franz Kafka and Max Brod.

Bergmann's films include: Bergmann wrote the libretto for Stefania de Kenessey's opera The Bonfire of the Vanities: The Opera, based on Tom Wolfe’s novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, and directed the premiere in New York on October 9, 2015.