Biography
Sean Benjamin is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Drinking & Writing Theater (www.drinkingandwriting.com), a theater and production company responsible for The Drinking & Writing Festival, Beerfly Alleyfight, Tied House Film Festival, and The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show on WLUW 88.7 FM in Chicago. He was an ensemble member of The Neo-Futurists from 1996 to 2009 and has written hundreds of two minute plays for the long-running Neo-Futurist show Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 plays in 60 minutes).
Mr. Benjamin is the playwright of Devolution, Missing Parts, Poker Night at the White House, and The Santa Abductions. He is the co-writer of SEX!, The News Show, BEER, 44 Plays for 44 Presidents, Picked Up, Drinking & Writing, Drinking & Writing Volume II: The Nobel Experiment, To Cure A Hangover, The 12 Steps of Christmas, The City that Drinks, God vs. Hall & Oates, Barnstormers, American Variety, American Variety 2, The Brewprints, A Beer Carol, and The Earliest Known Photo of Men Drinking Beer. His most recent play, Pseudo-Chum, written with his wife Carolyn Benjamin, was produced by the Neo-Futurists.
