Bennett Fisher
Playwright of DAMASCUS
Bennett Fisher is a company member of Campo Santo and People of Interest, and an associate artist with the Cutting Ball Theater. His plays include Damascus (Samuel Goldwyn Award, San Diego Critics Circle Nominee), Borealis (Kendeda Prize Finalist), Campo Maldito (TBA Award Nominee), Don’t Be Evil, Romulus Kilgore’s Mobile Happiness Bazaar, Candlestick, and the immersive pieces The Speakeasy and They Tell Me You Are Wicked. They have been presented and produced by Victory Gardens Theater, Rattlestick, the Alliance Theater, La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival, Campo Santo, the Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop, Theater Masters, the Martin E. Segel Center, Theater Emory, the Unicorn Theater, Cutting Ball Theater, EXIT Theater, Custom Made Theatre Company, Burbage Theater, and others. As an actor, he has collaborated with La Jolla Playhouse, California Shakespeare Theater, Marin Shakespeare Company, Adirondack Shakespeare Company, Crowded Fire, and others. Bennett is currently the Shank Fellowship Playwright in Residence at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. He received his MFA in playwriting from UC San Diego in 2016.
