Benjamin Benne’s (he/him) plays include Alma (World Premiere '22: Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre, L.A. & American Blues Theater, Chicago; ArtsWest, Seattle '22; Curious Theatre, Denver '23; Central Square, Cambridge '23), In His Hands (World Premiere '22: Mosaic Theater, D.C.), and What / Washed Ashore / Astray (World Premiere '23: Pillsbury House, Minneapolis). He’s a winner of Portland Stage's Clauder Competition Grand Prize, Arizona Theatre Company's National Latinx Playwriting Award, Kennedy Center's KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, American Blues' Blue Ink Playwriting Award, the Playwrights' Center's McKnight and Many Voices Fellowships, and was named part of "LA Vanguardia: The Latino innovators, investigators, and power players breaking through barriers” by the L.A. Times. Commissions: South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep. MFA: Playwriting, David Geffen/Yale School of Drama '22.

and thou shalt be healed by Benjamin Benne Saturday, August 6, 3:00 p.m.

Siblings Mary and Johnny were raised in the same Christian cult. Now in their 30s, the still religious Mary is having a crisis of faith and is in need of a miracle. Her now secular brother offers a controversial solution. When reunited on a remote mountain in New Mexico, surrounded by energy vortexes, rumors of aliens, and a golden eyelash palm pit viper named Daisy, they wonder: Did they ever know the same God?