Benjamin V. Marshall. Incident at Willow Creek - winner of 2018 Stanley Drama Award. Readings and workshops: Church Play was part of Borderlands Festival (Tuscan, AZ) Boom Box at HBO's new writers workshop, (CA) Henry’s Bridge at Theatre for a New City off-off Broadway, One Legged Race at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey The Red Train at Interact Theatre (Philadelphia) Snow was developed in part at the Brick Playhouse and Philadelphia Drama Center and staged by the Open Space Theatre Company at Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. (NY) Absolutions and Paradise at Last Frontier Theatre Conference (AK) Recently, Carlos and LaVonne won second prize at Theodore Ward Playwriting contest in Chicago, and Luna Stage in Montclair presented a reading of The Balcony Goat. He has received fellowships from The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and five playwriting fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts. Dramatists Guild member
Successes
My play EXTENDED PLAY is published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021 edited by Lawrence Harbison (Applause Theater & Cinema Books.
BENEDICTIONS ON THE ESCAPES, a new one act, was part of the Fresh Fruit Festival of radio plays. The NYC based annual festival produced their selection as radios plays. The play can still be heard as a podcast on Podbean as Fresh Fruit Radio plays.
Synopsis: While waiting for their son to return from a demonstration, Esper wonders about his safety and about her husband's who has returned home early from work. Esper has recently passed the citizenship test. At first reluctant, Manny finally tells his wife that he's been furloughed from his work. He was slow in telling her because of the Covid -19 virus and because of the ways they have been treated in the mainland.
BENEDICTIONS ON THE ESCAPES, a new one act, was part of the Fresh Fruit Festival of radio plays. The NYC based annual festival produced their selection as radios plays. The play can still be heard as a podcast on Podbean as Fresh Fruit Radio plays.
Synopsis: While waiting for their son to return from a demonstration, Esper wonders about his safety and about her husband's who has returned home early from work. Esper has recently passed the citizenship test. At first reluctant, Manny finally tells his wife that he's been furloughed from his work. He was slow in telling her because of the Covid -19 virus and because of the ways they have been treated in the mainland.
My new play, Incident at Willow Creek, will have a reading on Oct. 20, 2018, at Wagner College in Staten Island.
INCIDENT AT WILLOW CREEK a full-length play has won an NJ State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship and The Stanley Drama Award from Wagner College in NYC.