ROB BERLINER is a songwriter, performer, flight attendant, and aspiring billionaire philanthropist. For his musical theatre songwriting, he has been distinguished as a finalist for the Fred Ebb Award in 2021 and for the Kleban Prize for Most Promising Lyricist in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022.

Rob is the co-creator (lyricist/co-librettist) of A Hanukkah Carol, or GELT TRIP! The Musical, whose 2024 premiere at DC’s Round House Theatre was called “delightfully irreverent" and “worth its weight in gelt” by the Washington Post, praising Rob’s songs with composer Aaron Kenny as “unimpeachable.” Keeping with the holiday theme, the duo’s song “To A Brand New Year” was a 2019 Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominee for Best Original Song, Short Film. In 2022, Rob contributed lyrics to composer Paul Libman's oldies-inspired score for The Chase Brock Experience's BIG SHOT. Additionally, Rob’s updated lyrics to “You’re the Top” have been performed by Ann Harada at 54 Below, by Tony-winner and -nominee Santino Fontana and Laura Osnes at the Huntington Theatre gala, by Mr. Fontana with custom lyrics directly honoring acting legend James Earl Jones, and by stage and screen icons Alan Cumming and Liza Minnelli in... rehearsal. (So close! Someday.)

He is a proud member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, the Dramatists Guild, the Society of Composers and Lyricists, Actors Equity, SAG-AFTRA, “the tribe,” and a graduate of Northwestern University.