Benjamin Marshall
Plainfield, NJ 07062
About Benjamin Marshall
B. V. Marshall’s plays have earned recognition from HBO New
Writers Workshop., New York’s Theatre for a New City, Chicago’s public radio
station WBEZ and in play festivals
from Alaska to Australia. In
addition to working as a journalist, he has published poetry in several small
presses, including Obsidian and Phatitude . Previously he taught
English in Arabic-speaking countries. Awards: Five Playwriting fellowships
from NJ State Council on the Arts, Fellowships from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation,
VCCA, NEH, and the Robert Chesley/ Victor Bumbalo foundation. Recently he
received the Bauer-Boucher Award and the Stanley Drama Award for Incident at Willow Creek. Currently:
Extended Play (Warner’s International Playwright Festival)
White Gloves (L.B. Williams Festival New Circle Theatre) Beasts and Cakes (A.D. Players, Houston) In addition to ALAP, He is also a member
of the Dramatists Guild, the New Play Exchange, New Circle Theatre, and the 9th Floor, a
collective of writers and actors in NYC BA from Kean University, MFA from University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He is
a professor of English at Middlesex County College and teaches playwriting at Wagner
College.