BENJAMIN BENNE (he/him) is a Playwright's Center '23-26 Core Writer.
MFA: Playwriting, David Geffen/Yale School of Drama '22. His teachers included Anne Erbe, Amy Herzog, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Sarah Ruhl.
Commissions: South Coast Repertory Theatre and Seattle Repertory Theatre.
Awards: Ojai Playwrights Conference's Dr. Kerry English Artist Award (2023), Portland Stage's Clauder Competition Grand Prize (2022-23), ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting (2022), Arizona Theatre Company's National Latinx Playwriting Award (2019), Kennedy Center/KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award (2019), American Blues Theater's Blue Ink Playwriting Award (2019), Chesley/Bumbalo Playwriting Award (2017), Playwrights’ Center’s McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting (2017-18) and Many Voices Fellowship (2016-17...
BENJAMIN BENNE (he/him) is a Playwright's Center '23-26 Core Writer.
MFA: Playwriting, David Geffen/Yale School of Drama '22. His teachers included Anne Erbe, Amy Herzog, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Sarah Ruhl.
Commissions: South Coast Repertory Theatre and Seattle Repertory Theatre.
Awards: Ojai Playwrights Conference's Dr. Kerry English Artist Award (2023), Portland Stage's Clauder Competition Grand Prize (2022-23), ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting (2022), Arizona Theatre Company's National Latinx Playwriting Award (2019), Kennedy Center/KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award (2019), American Blues Theater's Blue Ink Playwriting Award (2019), Chesley/Bumbalo Playwriting Award (2017), Playwrights’ Center’s McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting (2017-18) and Many Voices Fellowship (2016-17).
Development: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Realm, The Lark, The Public, Roundabout, Denver Center, The Old Globe, Two River, Seattle Rep, Boston Court Pasadena, New Harmony Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Parley, among many others.
Productions:
ALMA at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre (Culver City CA), 2022
ALMA at ArtsWest Playhouse (Seattle WA), 2022
IN HIS HANDS at Mosaic Theater Company (Washington DC), 2022
ALMA at American Blues Theater (Chicago IL), 2022
ALMA at Curious Theatre Company (Denver CO), 2023
WHAT / WASHED ASHORE / ASTRAY at Pillsbury House + Theatre (Minneapolis MN), 2023
ALMA at Central Square Theater (Cambridge MA), 2023
ALMA at The Spot (Ketchum ID), 2023
ALMA at Chance Theater (Anaheim CA), 2024
MANNING at Portland Stage (Portland ME), 2024
Forthcoming Productions in 2024:
IN HIS HANDS (Chicago Premiere) at First Floor (Chicago IL), July 25-Aug 24
ALMA at Passage Theatre Company (Trenton NJ), Oct 4-20