Eliza Bent Headshot

Eliza Bent

Get Eliza Bent Email Alerts

Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.

Eliza Bent News


Return Engagement of Liza Birkenmeier's GRIEF HOTEL is Coming to The Public


Clubbed Thumb and New Georges announce the return engagement of GRIEF HOTEL, a collaboration that soars to new heights with an intimate and gentle ensemble play.

Return Engagement of MAHINERATOR & GHETTO ALCHEMY Added to The Tank Spring 2024 Season


The Tank will present additional productions for the Winter/Spring 2024 Core Productions season. Learn details!

Two World Premiere Musicals & More Set for La Jolla Playhouse 2024/2025 Season


La Jolla Playhouse has unveiled its 2024/2025 season, featuring two world-premiere musicals. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!

The Tank Adds Encore Performance Of Jerry Lieblich's MAHINERATOR Starring Steve Mellor


Don't miss the encore performance of Jerry Lieblich's MAHINERATOR at The Tank, starring Steve Mellor. Get your tickets for this thrilling sci-fi monologue now!

The Tank's MAHINERATOR Begins Performance Tomorrow


The Tank will present Mahinerator, by Jerry Lieblich, co-directed by Jerry Lieblich and Meghan Finn, and performed by Obie Winner Steve Mellor, which will play at The Tank from September 28-October 22, as part of their Fall 2023 Core Productions for their 20th Anniversary season.

John J. Caswell, Jr.'s WET BRAIN Extended at Playwrights Horizons


Playwrights Horizons and MCC Theater have revealed a one-week extension of the world premiere of John J. Caswell, Jr.’s Wet Brain, directed by Dustin Wills, to July 2. 

Jillian Walker's THE WHITNEY ALBUM Comes to Soho Rep This Month


Soho Rep presents the world premiere of multidisciplinary theater-maker, musician, and composer Jillian Walker's The Whitney Album. Walker's ritual performance flows between incantation, love lecture, scene, and song as it considers the labor of performance itself and honors the legacy of Whitney Houston and so many other Black women beloved, and consumed, for their art.

Project Y Theatre Presents 10 Commissions As Part Of 8th Annual Women In Theatre Festival


Project Y Theatre Company will present the eighth annual Women in Theatre Festival, a festival of new work written and created by women, June 3-18 at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres (502 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019).

Jillian Walker's THE WHITNEY ALBUM Premieres at Soho Rep in May


Soho Rep presents the world premiere of multidisciplinary theater-maker and “imaginary historian” Jillian Walker's The Whitney Album, a meditation on the artist's relationship to Whitney Houston's work and personal life, and perceptions of both in the American imagination. The production concludes a 2022-23 Soho Rep season consisting entirely of works commissioned by the organization

PlayCo's LUNCH BUNCH Extended Through Late April


PlayCo has extended Sarah Einspanier’s Lunch Bunch, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and presented with Clubbed Thumb.

Playwrights Horizons and MCC Theater To Present the World Premiere Of John J. Caswell, Jr.'s WET BRAIN


Playwrights Horizons and MCC Theater will present the world premiere of John J. Caswell, Jr.'s Wet Brain, directed by Dustin Wills. A terrifyingly inventive look at addiction's ability to transform one's existence and relationships, Wet Brain offers an American family drama that is not only freed from realism, but also, perhaps unmoored from Earth itself.

Complete Programming Set for Clubbed Thumb's 2023 SUMMERWORKS


Clubbed Thumb has announced the complete line-up for the 26th SUMMERWORKS festival of new plays. SUMMERWORKS will run May 18 – July 1, 2023 at The Wild Project.

Zoetic Stage and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County Present #GRACED


Zoetic Stage and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County present the world premiere of #GRACED by Vanessa Garcia, in collaboration with Abre Camino Collective.

Louisa Jacobson, Ugo Chukwu & More to Star in Sarah Einspanier's LUNCH BUNCH at PlayCo & Clubbed Thumb


PlayCo has announced the cast and creative team of Sarah Einspanier’s Lunch Bunch, a playful comedy surrounding a group of public defenders’ occasionally outsized emotional investment in the meals they share, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and presented with Clubbed Thumb.

#GRACED Premieres At The Adrienne Arsht Center in May


#Graced, written by Vanessa Garcia and directed by Sarah Hughes and Victoria Collado will be presented by Zoetic Stage and Adrienne Arsht Center in collaboration with Abre Camino Collective.

Cast Announced for World Premiere of MODERN SWIMWEAR at The Tank


The Tank has announced casting for the World Premiere of  Modern Swimwear by Caitlin Saylor Stephens. See who is starring, how to get tickets, and more!

New Ohio Theatre to Present NOW IN PROCESS 2023 in February


The shows, conceived and produced by a diverse group of NYC-based artists, are Untitled Ukraine Project by The Mill (Feb 1-2), Embodied by Jaime Sunwoo / Free Rein Projects (Feb 4-5), Rubalee by Caborca (Feb 8-9), and Longing Lights by Deniz Khateri and Bahar Royaee (Feb 11-12).

The Brick Presents BENTERTAINMENT ABROAD: Doing The Work With Eliza Bent


The Brick presents Bentertainment Abroad: Doing the Work by Eliza Bent, October 6, 2022, in-person at The Brick Theater.

PlayCo Announces Productions Through Fall 2023, Including the World Premiere of 9 KINDS OF SILENCE & More


PlayCo has announced its programming through 2023—three plays that, in radically disparate styles, offer generous and probing explorations of human connection across the complexities of geopolitics, cultural identity, and elaborate workplace lunches.

Michael Urie, Mallory Portnoy & More Join Fault Line Theatre's IRONS IN THE FIRE


 Fault Line Theatre will continue the 2022 Season of Irons in the  Fire, the organization’s reading series of new plays in development, with God Save the Queer by Zackary Grady, directed by Portia Krieger and featuring Michael Urie (George), Mallory Portnoy (Charlotte), Keshav Moodliar (Tariq), Seth Clayton (Louis), and Mary McCann (Kate).

Get Eliza Bent Email Alerts

Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.

Videos