Interview - France-Luce Benson
France-Luce Benson is a Haitian-American playwright/screenwriter and Assistant Professor at CSU San Marcos. From 2021-2022 she was a staff writer on Paramount’s Lawmen: Bass Reeves. Her play Detained, which had its world premiere at Los Angeles’ Fountain Theatre, was the winner of four NAACP Theatre Awards. Benson’s honors also include The Lily’s Lorraine Hansberry Award, NYSCA's Individual Artist Award,Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writers Fellow, Zoetrope’s Grand Prize for original screenplay (Healing Roots). Her plays have had productions at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Fire This Time Festival , Fountain Theatre Billy Holiday Theatre(Brooklyn, NY), and Ensemble StudioTheatre NYC where she is a company member. Benson's plays have been commissioned and/or developed by the Tony Award winning Atlantic Theatre Company, as well as other professional theatre. She’s a recipient of Sony’s Teaching Artist Award for Innovative Curriculum. Benson is a proud member of the Writer’s Guild of America and the Dramatist Guild.
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