Heather Benton

Heather is a 2003 MFA graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. A.R.T. main stage productions: Highway Ulysses (Robert Woodruff, director), The Children of Herakles (Peter Sellars, director). National Tour: Montana Repertory Theatre: The Trip to Bountiful (Greg Johnson, director). Regional: North Carolina Shakespeare Festival (Othello, Twelfth Night), Sierra Repertory Theatre (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), A Contemporary Theatre (Cabaret Space) (Jane Eyre, Replay> Stoppard> Radio), Children's Theatre Company (Tom Sawyer, How the Grinch Stole Xmas, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Wind in the Willows), Village Theatre (Eleanor, Play It by Heart, Bells Are Ringing, Carnival), Washington Shakespeare Festival (As You Like It), Northwest Playwrights Guild (Living With Betty — one-woman show), Seattle Theatre Group (Eternal Vaudeville), Ursa Major Theatre (Wake), Annex Theatre (Catlike Tread). In New York: East River Commedia (Serenade and Philosopher Fox — Innovative Theatre Award for Best Play, Paul Bargetto, director), Theatre Trouve (Living With Betty — original play by Benton, Mercedes Murphy, director). BA in theater and English, University of Minnesota.