His mother was a high school librarian, writer, and activist and his father was a psychologist and a minister at The Ethical Culture Society.
[1] Berson attended The Bronx High School of Science and earned a BA from Haverford College, majoring in Art History at Bryn Mawr.
In 2001, he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a writers' assistant on Scrubs, writing the season two episode, "My Drama Queen."
In 2017, he helped adapt and produce the Amazon pilot Sea Oak, based on the George Saunders short story.
[9] In 2014, Berson was nominated for a Writers Guild Access Project Award for Elsinor, a drama pilot set up as a prequel to Hamlet.