Diane Benedict
Birth Place: Pullman, Washington
Latest News on Diane Benedict:
CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY Kicks Off LBP Studio Season (Apr 9, 2018)
BWW Review: LAST ROUND UP OF THE GUACAMOLE QUEENS at Boise Little Theater (Jan 6, 2017)
Long Beach Playhouse to Present CHEKHOV SHORTS (Jun 10, 2014)
CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY Kicks Off LBP Studio Season (Apr 9, 2018)
BWW Review: LAST ROUND UP OF THE GUACAMOLE QUEENS at Boise Little Theater (Jan 6, 2017)
Long Beach Playhouse to Present CHEKHOV SHORTS (Jun 10, 2014)
Diane Benedict BIO
LION IN WINTER Eleanor Long Beach Playhouse
BLITHE SPIRIT Mdm. Arcati Long Beach Playhouse
MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION- Kitty Long Beach Playhouse
CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL Enid Long Beach Playhouse
*BURKIE Jess Int’l City Theatre, Long Beach
PRIME MISS J BRODIE Jean Int’l City Theatre, Long Beach
THREE SISTERS Olga Gene Dynarsky Theatre, LA
A WRINKLE IN TIME Mrs. Murray Coronet Theatre, LA
MONTH IN COUNTRY Natalya Jesters Playhouse, Ealing, London
TIMON OF ATHENS Timon Drama Studio, Ealing, London
FALLEN ANGELS Julia Drama Studio, Ealing, London
LYSISTRATA Lysistrata Debbie Reynolds Studios, LA
GLOAMIN, O MY DARLIN Mrs. Tweed Drama Studio, Ealing, London
NIGHT JAN 16 Nancy Broadway Playhouse, San Gabriel
ODD COUPLE Gwendolyn Encino Playhouse, Encino
CLOUD NINE Betty Freud Playhouse, LA
AMERICAN ILLIAD Marilyn Monroe Victory Theatre, LA
PIRATES OF PENZANCE Kate/Chorus NY Shakespeare Fest, 1st Nat’l, LA
THE KING & I Anna Curtain Call Dinner Theatre, Tustin
SHOWBOAT Ensemble California Music Theatre, Pasadena
THE CLUB Bertie Freud Playhouse, LA
TINSELTOWN Lead Richmond Shepard Theatre, NY, LA
AIDA High Priestess L.A. Met Opera w/Jerome Hines, Martina Arroya
SOME ENCHANTED EVE Julie Curtain Call Dinner Theatre, Tustin
MUSIC MAN Marian Curtain Call Dinner Theatre, Tustin
Diane Benedict News
CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY Kicks Off LBP Studio Season
The Long Beach Playhouse opens its 2018 Studio Season with Lynn Nottage's play entitled Crumbs from the Table of Joy. The play has been described as a cross between Tennessee Williams' A Glass Menagerie and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin the Sun.
BWW Review: LAST ROUND UP OF THE GUACAMOLE QUEENS at Boise Little Theater
The Verdeen family is at it again. LAST ROUND UP OF THE GUACAMOLE QUEENS, presented by Boise Little Theater and directed by Wendy Koeppl is fantastically ridiculous!
Long Beach Playhouse to Present CHEKHOV SHORTS
Long Beach Playhouse audiences are in for a very original and unique treat because opening this weekend in the Studio Theatre is a production called Chekov Shorts: The Proposal and The Bear. Diane Benedict is not only the director for the show but has translated these two one act plays from Russian to English. Interestingly, she has interspersed in the middle of these two pieces an adaptation (again her translation) of one of Chekov's short stories, The Bet that she turned into another one act play. She chose these three pieces because of the vaudevillian nature of the stories. We tend to associate Chekov with his more serious plays like-The Three Sisters, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, etc., but he wrote wonderful, rich comedies that are exemplified in this production. Setting for The Bear is in the Ural Mountains on November 14, 1880. The Proposal is set near Moscow on November 13, 1885, and The Bet, set in St. Petersburg, spans the years from 1870 to 1885.
Videos
