E. H. BENEDICT’s short play, “Orhan,” was included in the 2012 ReOrient Festival at Golden Thread Productions in San Francisco. She is an actor, novelist, and, for the past ten years, playwright. She is a founding member of Actors & Writers, a reader’s theatre near Woodstock, New York, where many of her short plays were read. She moved from New York to Northern California in 1995. In 2005 her play “Jesus in Las Vegas” was included in the Bash! Event at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. In 2006 “Jesus in Las Vegas” was included in the Z Magic Monday series of New Work at the Magic. Another play, “American Royals,” was selected as a semifinalist for the 2008 O’Neill Conference, the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s New American Playwrights Project, and Pacific Rep’s Hyperion New Plays Competition. In 2009 “American Royals” received a round-table read at the Lark Play Development Center in New York City. In 2010 “Jesus in Las Vegas” was also read at the Lark. In 2013 she was again a semifinalist for the O’Neill with her play “Rashomon in Kansas.” She has been selected to be part of this years’ ATLAS Playwrights, a professional program run by Theatre Bay Area. Her short play “Gloria Steinem & Lotte Lenya & Scout Are Waiting” was recently performed at WCPA in Westcliffe, CO, where it won ‘Best in Festival.’ “American Jihad – A Rashomon in Kansas” was read twice at Z Space in 2014 and 2015. She is a Theatre Bay Area TITAN Award grantee for 2016.
Elizabeth relocated to Portland, Oregon in 2020.