[1] She is a "performer who delivers rapid-fire lines with assertive and acerbic virtuosity,"[2] who has made her name as a stand-up comedian, staging "confronting and politically incorrect" productions including Perfect, Clenched Buttocks, Loose Cannon, The She Comic, Comedy Siren, and Berger Republic.
A major departure from her previous work, Hold the Pickle is a monologue that traces her parents' flight from Nazi-occupied Poland to Israel during the Second World War, to running a delicatessen in Acland Street, St Kilda, a Melbourne suburb.
[3] In 2008, Hold the Pickle was nominated for three Green Room Awards: Best Female Performer in an Independent Theatre Production, New Writing for the Australian Stage, and Lighting Design.
[4] In 2010, Berger was cast as Cora in the Australian Production of Calendar Girls,[5] which toured for four months.
(Penguin Books, 2001)[1] and regularly co-hosts The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine on Radio 774 ABC in Melbourne.