Erich Bergen was staring at his computer screen on the desk in the bedroom of his Harlem apartment. In a couple minutes, the July 21 final installment of Nancy Pelosi’s virtual Hold the House fundr…
was staring at his computer screen on the desk in the bedroom of his Harlem apartment. In a couple minutes, the July 21 final installment of Nancy Pelosi’s virtual Hold the House fundraisers for Democratic congressional candidates was going live.Bergen had a quick decision to make. “There was a moment when I was like, ‘Can I tell the president that he needs to be lit better?’” he tells, laughing.
These are the kinds of things Bergen has to think about since becoming one of Hollywood and New York’s most in-demand producers of virtual events.Until COVID-19, the 34-year-old New York native was an actor and a singer, best known for his role as Blake Moran on the CBS drama “outbreak morphed into a pandemic, Hollywood productions ground to a halt and Broadway, where Bergen starred in “Waitress” during separate runs in 2018 and 2019, was closing down.
Bergen had no aspirations to become a full-time producer. “For Rosie, I had a laptop and a phone, and that was it,” he says. “It was wild, and it was fun, but I never meant for it to be anything other than that one moment.” In addition to O’Donnell and Pelosi, Bergen has now produced events for GLAAD, Bette Midler, Kerry Washington, UNICEF, the San Francisco and Los Angeles AIDS Walks, New York’s LGBT Community Center and the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative. The “Saturday Night Seder” Passover celebration, produced with Oscar winner Benj Pasek, raised $3 million for the CDC Foundation’s Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund.
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