Benji Carr

Benji Carr

As a child growing up in the South with cerebral palsy, Benji Carr developed an eye for the bizarre and quirky, which provided all of the stories he told his friends and family with a bit of flavor. Working as a journalist, storyteller and playwright, his work - whether the stories be personal tales of struggle and survival or fiction about cannibal lunch ladies, puppet romances, drag queen funerals, and...
As a child growing up in the South with cerebral palsy, Benji Carr developed an eye for the bizarre and quirky, which provided all of the stories he told his friends and family with a bit of flavor. Working as a journalist, storyteller and playwright, his work - whether the stories be personal tales of struggle and survival or fiction about cannibal lunch ladies, puppet romances, drag queen funerals, and perverted killer circus clowns - has been featured in The Guardian, ArtsATL and Pembroke Magazine. Onstage, his pieces have been presented at the Center for Puppetry Arts, Alliance Theatre, and as part of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival in Manhattan. He lives in Atlanta and helps run the online literary magazine, Gutwrench Journal. Impacted is his first novel.

Plays

  • Crosswalk by Benji Carr
    Cast: 
    8
    ·
    Genre: melodrama, tragedy
    ·
    Keyword: car accident, psychic + 1 more
    Genre: melodrama, tragedy
    Keyword: car accident, psychic, eyewitness
    A woman gets hit by a car. Witnesses vary in their statements, and the victim has her own version of events.
  • The Fourth Season Premiere of THE AMBER NASH SHOW by Benji Carr
    Cast: 
    4–8
    ·
    Genre: parody/spoof, romantic comedy
    ·
    Keyword: Farce, puppets + 3 more
    Genre: parody/spoof, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Farce, puppets, sitcom, television, bad breakups
    The co-stars of Amber Nash's television show, a mix of Mary Tyler Moore and Sex and the City, have walked away from the live season premiere. Ever resourceful, Amber has brought in a team of puppets to help her resolve all the sitcom's previous cliffhangers.
  • Ground Chuck by Benji Carr
    Recommendations: 3
    ·
    Cast: 
    2
    ·
    Genre: dark comedy, farce + 5 more
    ·
    Keyword: American Racism, school segregation + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, farce, horror, mystery/thriller, period, satire, tragedy
    Keyword: American Racism, school segregation, American Southern history, argument with mother, mother-daughter conflict, cafeteria workers, School cafeteria, cannibalism, serial killers
    Beauty Chisholm, a lunch lady at the all-white Sycamore Elementary School in the segregated South, gets her daughter Jo hired as a janitor, even though Jo finds children to be disgusting creatures. During some on-the-job training in the cafeteria kitchen, Jo realizes she has grossly underestimated the situation.
  • Squirrel Safety by Benji Carr
    Recommendations: 3
    ·
    Cast: 
    1
    ·
    Genre: experimental, tragedy + 1 more
    ·
    Keyword: squirrel, puppets + 2 more
    Genre: experimental, tragedy, young audiences
    Keyword: squirrel, puppets, dark comedy, absurd comedy
    A monologue from a French-accented squirrel, mourning the death of his entire family, delivered in the parking lot outside the theater. (This is my mom's favorite thing I have ever written.)

    Created as part of Amy Rush's AUTO SHOW for XPT at the Center for Puppetry Arts.
  • That Fat Bitch Loved to Run Her Mouth by Benji Carr
    Recommendations: 7
    ·
    Cast: 
    1
    ·
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    ·
    Keyword: monologue, drag queen + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: monologue, drag queen, eulogy, dark comedy, drug addiction, gay, family
    Miss Puppy Mills, the Flaming Queen of Taliaferro County, Georgia, died during a drag performance in Augusta. Joe, her faithful servant, has arrived at the family's conservative Baptist service - complete with a flask of Southern Comfort - to eulogize her honestly.