Stephen Wagener Bennett

(He/him)       268 Woodbine St, #3 Brooklyn, NY 11221

stephen.wagener.bennett@gmail.com     (510) 220-6566

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My Projects

Lygia, (Book, music, lyrics), an original solo musical exploring the demands of making art, and the balance of great ambition with family life. 2021 Night Witches, (book/music), an original musical written with Sam Rosenblatt (book/lyrics), started at NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, 2020. Red Flag, (music), an original 10-minute musical with book and lyrics by Brandy Hoang Collier about consent, told in Sunset Boulevard-esque noir style.
What You Will, (producer/director/composer), an extra-musical rendition of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Presented at the downstairs space of Teatro Circulo, Manhattan, 2013.

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Other Selected Theatrical Composition

The West Kortright Center, East Meredith, NY: Composer & Music Director, Shakespeare in the Valley

  • Two Gentlemen of Verona (2020)

  • Macbeth (2019)

  • Much Ado About Nothing (2018)

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2017)

Linked Dance Theatre, Brooklyn, NY: Composer & Performer

  • Freaks Don’t Cry (2017)

This is Not a Theatre Company, Manhattan, NY: Composer & Performer

  • The L Train (2015)

  • Ferry Play (2015)

  • A Serious Banquet (2014)

Highly Impractical Theatre, Brooklyn, NY: Composer

  • Three Sisters (2014)

The British American Drama Academy, London, UK: Composer & Arranger

  • Widows (2009)

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Selected Songwriting

Opera Old King Trout (15-minute opera), with Andrew Jackson Lynch The Intern’s Turn, with Briana Whyte Harris

Cabaret Songs: Move On, with Sam Rosenblatt Nothin’ at All, with Jamie Buxton Quiet, with Sam Rosenblatt California Baby, with Maggie Sharp Tallan Porcupine and Nightmare, with Sam Rosenblatt Sadness, with Sam Rosenblatt

Pirates project with Sam Rosenblatt: More Pirate King In Your Eyes Two Options

Young people’s songs, with Hear Your Song: Hope Sunny Days My Favorite Thing to Do Tell You What

Eco-Songs, with Katherine: I Remember Dad Open Your Eyes Without Shared Facts Welcome the Call of the Wild Endangered Species

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Education

MFA: NYU, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, New York, 2020.

Lit/Theatre BA: Reed College, Portland, OR, 2011. Thesis: “James Joyce’s The Dead, the musical.”