Connie Bennett is a Eugene, Oregon based playwright, member of the Dramatists Guild, the Playwrights' Center, and International Centre for Women Playwrights. Connie participated in the first two years of the William Inge Festival PlayLab. She has written annually for 365 Women A Year: a playwriting project. She contributed to the collective script, Playwrights Say Never Again to School Shootings. In 2018, a staged reading of Connie’s full length version of Amanda Transcending was performed as part of the National Endowment for the Arts NEA Big Read: a community celebration of Joy Harjo’s “How We Became Human” at the Eugene Public Library and the Oregon Contemporary Theatre; this script will be workshopped this summer by Theatre33. Connie’s Gray Reflections was a finalist in the Actors Theatre of Louisville 2010 National Ten-Minute Play Contest and her full-length play, Hungry Hearts (based on the novel by Francine Prose), was a finalist at the National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene in New York. Also at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, she’s co-produced the annual “Northwest Ten! Festival” since 2009 and, since 2015, the SWAN Day Readings of new works by Oregon women.