Benjamin Benne

Benjamin Benne was named part of “LA Vanguardia: The Latino innovators, instigators, and power players breaking through barriers” by the Los Angeles Times. His produced plays include Alma (Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre, American Blues Theater, ArtsWest Playhouse, Curious Theatre Company, Central Square Theater, The Spot, Chance Theater, Passage Theatre Company), In His Hands (Mosaic Theater Company, First Floor Theater), Manning (Portland Stage), Wave After Wave (Actors Theatre of Louisville), and What / Washed Ashore / Astray (Pillsbury House Theatre). Forthcoming productions include the West Coast Premiere of Manning (Crowded Fire) and the World Premiere of at the very bottom of a body of water (Boston Court Pasadena, LA New Play Project Award Winner). Additionally, his work has been developed by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference, Great Plains Theatre Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Public, Roundabout Theatre Company, The New Group, Playwrights Realm, South Coast Repertory, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Colorado New Play Festival, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Old Globe, Two River Theater, and The Playwrights’ Center, among many others. He has been awarded Ojai Playwrights Conference’s Dr. Kerry English Award, Portland Stage’s Clauder Competition Grand Prize, American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink Playwriting Award, Arizona Theatre Company’s National Latinx Playwriting Award, and KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, among others. He is a 2026 Page 73 Writers Group member and an alum of the Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group. MFA: David Geffen/Yale School of Drama. www.benjaminbenne.com