Christine Benvenuto

Christine Benvenuto is a playwright, fiction and nonfiction writer. Her plays have been performed at The Boston Theater Marathon, The International Human Rights Art Festival, The Queens Short Play Festival and The Sixth Festival in NYC, The Braid in Los Angeles, Clamour Theater’s Clay and Water Festival in North Florida, The LAVA Center in Western Massachusetts, The Fern Street Theatre Festival in Connecticut, The Orpheus Theatre Company in Pennsylvania and online. Her play Yours has been released as a podcast by Onstage/Offstage, and another is included in the multilingual anthology Borderless Thalia, published in London. 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, New Perspective Theatre’s Women’s Work Short Play cohort 2024, and NPX. She is a recipient of a grant 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.