Eliza Bent
Eliza Bent is an American playwright, performer, and journalist. Her plays have been staged off-broadway at theaters across New York City including: Abrons Art Center, A.R.T., New York Theatre Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, and others. She is a founding member of the Brooklyn-based Half Straddle theater company and a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program in playwriting. Bent currently teaches in the department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern.
Produced plays
- Bonnie's Last Flight
- Indeed, Friend!
- Aloha, Aloha, or When I Was Queen )
- Real Talk / Kip Talk )
- On a Clear Day I Can See to Elba
- Toilet Fire
- The Beyonce
- Asleep at the Wheel
- Blue Wizard / Black Wizard
- The Hotel Colors
- Karma Kharms
- ''Pen Pals Meet''
Residencies
- LMCC Workspace 2018/19
- Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor 2018
- SPACE on Ryder Farm 2017 / Working Farm 2016
- Target Margin Institute Fellow 2016
- Casa Zia Lina 2014
- MacDowell Colony 2013