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Writer
Lucas Hnath’s plays include A Simulacrum; Dana H.; The Thin Place; Hillary and Clinton; A Doll’s House, Part 2; The Christians; A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney; Isaac’s Eye; and Death Tax. He has been produced on Broadway at the John Golden and Lyceum Theatres; Off-Broadway at the Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, Soho Rep, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. In London his work has been seen at the Donmar Warehouse, Royal Court, and the Gate Theatre. Awards: Whiting Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Kesselring Prize, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, Obie Award for Playwriting, Steinberg Playwright Award, Windham-Campbell Literary Prize, Lucille Lortel Award, and a Tony Nomination for Best Play.
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Sarah Benson is an Obie Award-winning director. Shows include Teeth by Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs (Playwrights Horizons & New World Stages), Drama League nomination Best Direction, Lortel and Outer Circle Critics’ nomination Best Musical; The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood (The Atlantic); César Alvarez’s Noise (Northern Stage); Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview (Soho Rep, TFANA & Berkeley Rep), Drama Desk nomination; Suzan-Lori Parks’ In The Blood (Signature Theater); at Soho Rep: Richard Maxwell’s Samara with music by Steve Earle; César Alvarez and The Lisps’ Futurity (ART, Walker Arts Center and in New York with Ars Nova), Callaway Award for Direction, Lortel Award for Best Musical; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon (Soho Rep & TFANA); Lucas Hnath’s A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney; Sarah Kane’s Blasted, Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination; David Adjmi’s Elective Affinities featuring Zoe Caldwell (site-specific). Benson also directed Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical (Townhall) for the 2019 Super Bowl, Grand Prix at Cannes Lions 2019. Obie Award for Sustained Excellence and Vilcek Prize. Benson was a Director of Soho Rep from 2007 – 2023.
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Photo of Lucas Hnath by Rebecca Martinez; Sarah Benson by Pavel Antonov.
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