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Regional productions include GodвЂ™s EarВ by Jenny Schwartz, Sarah KaneвЂ™s CraveВ and Daniel McIvorвЂ™s Never Swim Alone,В all at at Washington Ensemble Theatre in Seattle, Doug WrightвЂ™s Pulitzer Prize winning play I Am My Own WifeВ at Madison Rep., and Guillem CluaвЂ™s Skin In FlamesВ for Salt Lake Acting Company. As both director and playwright, Benington developed his adaptation of Paul MonetteвЂ™s novella SanctuaryВ at the 1998 Sundance Theatre Laboratory. BeningtonвЂ™s extravaganza Shhh! Burlesque!В brought burlesque luminaries Dirty Martini, Julie Atlas Muse, and World Famous *BOB* to Utah to perform alongside Burlesque Legend, Dee Milo.ДЇor Sundance ChildrenвЂ™s Theatre, he directed productions of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, The Little Prince, and AliceвЂ™s Adventures in Wonderland, which he was also commissioned to adapt.

In Salt Lake City, where he founded and served as the Artistic Director of Tooth & Nail Theatre for 9 years, BeningtonвЂ™s directing credits include IbsenвЂ™s Little Eyolf, SedarisвЂ™ The Santaland Diaries, his own adaptation of Arabian Nights, CraveВ by Sarah Kane, Becky ModeвЂ™s Fully Committed, Ferdinand BrucknerвЂ™s The Pains of Youth, and two seasons of Project Fabulocity!, an original play by and about Queer youth in Salt Lake City.

Past directing projects in NYC include StrindbergвЂ™s The PelicanВ at Classic Stage Company and an ensemble created play titled DivinersВ for the Lincoln Center TheatreвЂ™s DirectorвЂ™s Lab. Other projects include the creation and direction of Cabaret de CuriositГ©sВ for the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the American premiere of Shine, A Burlesque Music al!, which played at Theatre Off-Jackson and the New York International Fringe Festival and the premiere of Tommy SmithвЂ™s SextetВ for Washington Ensemble Theatre. The Mormon Bird Play,В which Benington wrote, directed, designed and co-produced with Washington Ensemble Theatre. In 2011, his staging and design ofВ Glenn BergerвЂ™s O Lovely GlowwormВ for New Century Theatre Company in Seattle garnered rave reviews, and earned him two Gregory Award nominations for Outstanding Direction and Design. In 2012 BeningtonвЂ™s work as a designer and director was seen at The Seattle Art Museum, in an art installation/operaВ titled O(PA)PERA written by Byron Au Yong, andВ at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NYC). This play was developed over a seven-month period through weekly collaboration with six New York actors.В In response to this play and the body of work that he had created as a director in Seattle over several years, one local critic described Benington as вЂњa major theatrical talent.вЂќ It had previously been seen in Seattle, in a co-production with Washington Ensemble Theatre. In 2015, he wrote, produced, directed and designed THE MORMON BIRD PLAY at The New York International Fringe Festival. InВ October, 2017,В Canal Cafe Theatre in London selected BeningtonвЂ™s script PSYCHOPOMP for inclusion in their вЂњAmerican Season,вЂќ giving the play its world premiere. His play вЂњthe pangsвЂќ set in Tooele, UtahвЂ“about a Mormon motherвЂ™s conversion to Islam after she meets a young illegal immigrant from LibyaвЂ“was a semi-finalist in the 2020 PlayPenn Conference. His first South African play, The BearвЂ™s Fur Coat, dramatized in epic fashion his experience as a gay conscript in the South African Army. He is currently working on a play set in Apartheid South Africa circa 1965. Over the past years, playwriting has become RogerвЂ™s main focus. Benington was a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors (03-05). Mellon FoundationвЂ™s Young Artist Fellowship to study directing at The Juilliard School with JoAnne Akalaitis, Michael Kahn, and Garland Wright. He holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from the University of Utah and was awarded The Andrew W. Director, designer and playwright ROGER BENINGTON was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Stella adler studio of acting foundation grant