Benjamin Benne’s plays include q u e r e n c i a: an imagined autobiography about forbidden fruits, at the very bottom of a body of water, and Alma (f.k.a. #nowall).
His plays have been produced/developed by the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (2018), The Playwrights Realm's Scratchpad Series (2017-18), The Lark's Playwrights' Week (2016), Two River Theater, Pillsbury House Theatre, Teatro Milagro, Seattle Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Theatre Battery, Annex Theatre, Forward Flux, Umbrella Project, and Parley, among others.
He is a Playwrights' Center Affiliated Writer (2017-18 McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting, 2016-17 Many Voices Fellowship) and Robert Chesley/Victor Bumbalo Playwriting Award winner; his plays have been finalists for The Playwrights' Center's Jerome Fellowship, Princess Grace Award, SPACE on Ryder Farm's Working Farm, Ingram New Works Lab, Blue Ink Playwriting Award, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Headwaters New Play Festival, and Austin Playhouse Festival of New American Plays, as well as runner-up for the National Latino Playwriting Award and semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship. Most recently, Benjamin's work was featured on Steppenwolf Theatre Company's THE MIX and 50 Playwrights Project's Best Unproduced Latin@/x Plays 2018 list.
He is a first-year MFA Playwriting candidate at the Yale School of Drama.
Selected works are available to read in full at New Play Exchange.
His plays have been produced/developed by the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (2018), The Playwrights Realm's Scratchpad Series (2017-18), The Lark's Playwrights' Week (2016), Two River Theater, Pillsbury House Theatre, Teatro Milagro, Seattle Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Theatre Battery, Annex Theatre, Forward Flux, Umbrella Project, and Parley, among others.
He is a Playwrights' Center Affiliated Writer (2017-18 McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting, 2016-17 Many Voices Fellowship) and Robert Chesley/Victor Bumbalo Playwriting Award winner; his plays have been finalists for The Playwrights' Center's Jerome Fellowship, Princess Grace Award, SPACE on Ryder Farm's Working Farm, Ingram New Works Lab, Blue Ink Playwriting Award, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Headwaters New Play Festival, and Austin Playhouse Festival of New American Plays, as well as runner-up for the National Latino Playwriting Award and semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship. Most recently, Benjamin's work was featured on Steppenwolf Theatre Company's THE MIX and 50 Playwrights Project's Best Unproduced Latin@/x Plays 2018 list.
He is a first-year MFA Playwriting candidate at the Yale School of Drama.
Selected works are available to read in full at New Play Exchange.
