Benjamin Benne (he/him) is a playwright and puppeteer. Born and raised in Los Angeles County, Ben has lived in the Pacific Northwest and Midwest but now resides on the East Coast, where he is an MFA Playwriting Candidate at the Yale School of Drama.
Like Ben, his work has been seen coast to coast (and in a few points in the middle): The Old Globe (CA), Boston Court Pasadena (CA), Teatro Milagro (OR), Seattle Repertory Theatre (WA), ACT Theatre (WA), Theatre Battery (WA), Texas Tech University (TX), The Playwrights’ Center (MN), Pillsbury House Theatre (MN), Two River Theater (NJ), The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (CT), The Playwrights Realm (NY), The Lark (NY), and Roundabout Theater Company (NY), among others.
His gently poetic and quietly explosive plays--including at the very bottom of a body of water, q u e r e n c i a: an imagined autobiography about forbidden fruits, and Alma--feature vivid images that take on deep symbolic resonance; these works center on movement and sensory experiences of the human body to ask existential questions with wit and an expressionistic dramaturgy.
He has been the recipient of American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink Playwriting Award, the Kennedy Center's KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, the Robert Chesley/Victor Bumbalo Playwriting Award, a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Many Voices Fellowship, and McKnight Playwriting Fellowship. Benjamin is represented by Paradigm Talent Agency, and selected works are available to read in full at New Play Exchange.
Like Ben, his work has been seen coast to coast (and in a few points in the middle): The Old Globe (CA), Boston Court Pasadena (CA), Teatro Milagro (OR), Seattle Repertory Theatre (WA), ACT Theatre (WA), Theatre Battery (WA), Texas Tech University (TX), The Playwrights’ Center (MN), Pillsbury House Theatre (MN), Two River Theater (NJ), The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (CT), The Playwrights Realm (NY), The Lark (NY), and Roundabout Theater Company (NY), among others.
His gently poetic and quietly explosive plays--including at the very bottom of a body of water, q u e r e n c i a: an imagined autobiography about forbidden fruits, and Alma--feature vivid images that take on deep symbolic resonance; these works center on movement and sensory experiences of the human body to ask existential questions with wit and an expressionistic dramaturgy.
He has been the recipient of American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink Playwriting Award, the Kennedy Center's KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, the Robert Chesley/Victor Bumbalo Playwriting Award, a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Many Voices Fellowship, and McKnight Playwriting Fellowship. Benjamin is represented by Paradigm Talent Agency, and selected works are available to read in full at New Play Exchange.
