Christine Benvenuto is a playwright, fiction and nonfiction writer. Her plays have been performed at The Boston Theater Marathon, The Short Play Festival, St. Botolphs Club, Boston, and The LAVA Center, Western MA; The International Human Rights Art Festival, The Queens Short Play Festival, The Bond Arts Center, Equity Library Theater, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and The Sixth Festival in NYC; The Braid Los Angeles and B8 Theatre Company, SF Bay Area; The Valdez, AK Theatre Conference; The Mid-American Theatre Conference, Atlanta, GA; Clamour Theater’s Clay and Water Festival in North Florida; The Groton Regional Theatre, TheatreWorks, New Milford and The Fern Street Theatre Festival, CT; The Orpheus Theatre Company in Pennsylvania; Temple Bet Ha’am, Portland, Maine; and online. One play is released as a podcast by Onstage/Offstage, and another is included in the multilingual anthology Borderless Thalia, published in London. Her monologues are included in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2024 and a number of other anthologies. A full length play, Bridges, received a series of staged readings in Western MA, and some of the material was published as a short story in anthology from Michigan State University Press. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and NPX. She was a member of New Perspective Theatre’s Women’s Work Short Play cohort 2024, and is now a member of the Women’s Work Full Length Play Lab. She is a recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her two works of nonfiction, Shiksa, and Sex Changes, are published by St. Martin’s Press. Her short stories, essays, articles and reviews have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, and in anthologies, and one short story is available through Audible and SheBooks. An essay was the winner of the Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival’s Nonfiction Award. She has worked as an editor, taught nonfiction writing and currently leads a play reading group. She has been a research associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center.
