Sarah Benson is a British

United Kingdom

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 theater director based in New York City

New York City

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. She became Artistic Director of Soho Repertory Theater, Inc in 2006. She is the fourth artistic director at Soho Rep.
A graduate of King's College

King's College London

King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...

 in London, she first came to the U.S. on a Fulbright

Fulbright Program

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 award for theater direction to study at Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...

, where she earned her MFA. At Soho Rep she directed the critically acclaimed production of Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of...

’s Blasted in fall 2008.
She produced No Dice by Nature Theater of Oklahoma which won an Obie Award

Obie Award

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 in 2008,

the New York premiere of John Jesurun

John Jesurun

John Jesurun is writer, director and multi-media artist, based in a New York, USA. His work Chang in a Void Moon is a live serial running since 1983, originally at the Pyramid Club in the East Village, and now less frequently at venues worldwide. He was born 1951 in Battle Creek, Michigan.-...

’s Philoktetes written for Ron Vawter

Ron Vawter

Ron Vawter was an American actor and a founding member of the experimental theater company, The Wooster Group....

 and is producing Young Jean Lee

Young Jean Lee

Young Jean Lee is a Brooklyn-based playwright and director working in experimental theater. She is the artistic director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to producing her work...

’s Lear in 2010.