Biography

Pete Berwick has half a century of experience in all avenues of entertainment. He has recorded, produced, and distributed thirteen critically acclaimed albums of his original music via his record label, Shotgun Records, written and published six books, and worked on the production side as well as acted in over one hundred film and television projects since 1989. As an actor in film, he has earned ten Best Actor awards from film festivals across the globe.

He has worked with notables in the movie industry, such as Samuel L. Jackson and Clarence Williams lll, and in the music industry, with Charlie Daniels and Travis Tritt.

Berwick put together his first band, a punk rock outfit, in 1976, and by 1991 he was signed to an independent record label in Nashville, where he made a respectable name for himself as an innovator and pioneer of alternative country and cowpunk.

He has managed and toured the nation with his various bands through the decades while building an entertainment company called Big Top Entertainment, featuring variety acts, where he booked and produced three hundred events a year for over 20 years.

In 2008, he co-produced and starred in an episode of ABC's reality series, "Wife Swap," and in 2017 and 2024 he appeared as a standup comedian on NBC's "America's Got Talent."

Berwick is the founder and president of BPI (Berwick Productions International), an entertainment company that offers management, talent representation, promotion, music publishing and licensing, consultation, and film and television production.

Berwick's most recent books include an exhaustive biography, titled "Too Wild to Tame," a history of the Illinois music scene in the 1970s, featuring a band called The Boyzz, who were at the forefront of the explosion of musical acts in the Chicago area being signed by major record labels from 1975 to 1980. In 2024 Berwick released an 826-page autobiography, "I Ain't Him: My Life in Show Business, Whoever I Am."

Pete Berwick continues to sign acts to his record label, represent talent, and manage his music catalog through Pete Berwick Publishing (BMI, Nashville), licensing dozens of songs annually for film and television.

- IMDb mini biography by: Pete Berwick