Vivienne Benesch Explained

Vivienne Benesch is a theatre director and former artistic director of the Chautauqua Theatre who is currently artistic director at North Carolina's PlayMakers Repertory Company, a position she has held since 2016.[1] As part of her work at PlayMakers, Benesch focuses on amplifying the work of women playwrights through their @PLAY program.[2]

Benesch trained as an actor and received her MFA from Tisch School of the Arts and has been on the faculty of Juilliard.[3] [4] As an actor, Benesch won an Obie Award in 2005 for her role in Lee Blessing's Going to St. Ives and played opposite Dame Maggie Smith in a 2007 London production of The Lady from Dubuque.[5] In film, she appeared in the 2007 comedy horror Teeth as Kim, the mother of the protagonist. In 2017, she received the Zelda Fichandler Award.[6]

In 2019, she made her Washington, D.C. directorial debut with the Folger Theatre production of Love's Labor Lost.[6] In 2022, she directed Noah Haidle's Birthday Candles, starring NYU classmate Debra Messing.[7] [8]

Notes and References

  1. News: 2015-10-28 . Vivienne Benesch Named New Artistic Director at PlayMakers . en-US . 2021-12-22.
  2. News: Gunter . Savannah . 2021-03-17 . PlayMakers @PLAY residency initiative highlights women's representation in theater . 2021-12-22.
  3. News: Cooper . Jackson . 2016-01-27 . Vivienne Benesch Is Looking for Transformation . en-US . 2021-12-22.
  4. Woods . Byron . 2015-12-16 . Vivienne Benesch, the new artistic director of PlayMakers, wants to break down its reclusive reputation . en-us . 2021-12-22.
  5. News: Menconi . David . 2018-04-28 . Vivienne Benesch's new era at PlayMakers . News & Observer . 2021-12-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180428213626/https://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article54874455.html . 2018-04-28.
  6. News: Mackay . Barbara . 2019-04-25 . 'Love's Labor's Lost' Director Vivienne Benesch Finds Inspiration in Folger Reading Room . en-US . 2021-12-22.
  7. News: Banov . Jessica . 2019-11-05 . Debra Messing to star in Broadway play Birthday Candles . Raleigh News & Observer . 2021-12-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191105203316/https://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/article231707278.html . 2019-11-05.
  8. News: 2019-07-02. PlayMakers' Vivienne Benesch is Broadway bound, will direct Debra Messing in "Birthday Candles". en-US. UNC-Chapel Hill. 2021-12-22.

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