ORIGINALLY FROM MIAMI

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 I HAVE

Staffed for the Limited TV Series, La Joconde directed by Jodie Foster. Streaming premiere TBA.

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Developed an original ongoing series for Universal Television

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Written a pilot for NBC, adapted from my original play

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COMING UP​

For Closure!, a new farce at freeFall Theater, regional premiere

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a new commissioned play, Pegged, at Island City Stage. Premiering 2026

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Adaptive Radiation published with Broadway Play Publishing, fall '25!

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a new commissioned play for The Greenhouse, FIU

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RECENTLY

Saint Brigid at Rattlestick Theater, Pride Plays, sold out reading!​

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BIO

Benitez is a screenwriter, playwright and fiction writer, who got her start as an actor/musician in over 20 AEA productions, including the original casts of Here There Are Bluberries by Moisés Kaufman/Tectonic Theater Project and White Fang by Jethro Compton
. Her produced plays include: GringoLandia (Zoetic Stage), Adaptive Radiation (Denizen Theatre, American Academy for the Dramatic Arts and Clarence Brown Theatre), Ashe In Johannesburg (Burning Coal Theatre), Dike (Urbanite Theatre, Hofstra University, New York Theater Workshop 29-hour reading, ), For Closure! (freeFall Theater) and Pegged (Island City Stage [upcoming]). Dike, the prelude play to Saint Brigid, was originally developed for The New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellow Tatiana Pandiani culminating project- these two plays about religion and female queerness can be done in rep, while Benitez completes a third play in the same universe for what is Dike Trilogy. Benitez made the Kilroy’s List with her bilingual play, GringoLandia. She is a finalist for American Shakespeare Center’s Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Prize with her comedic adaptation of Henry 6 titled, The 6th, Or, The Patriots. She's had workshops and readings with The Playwrights’ Center, Artists’ Repertory Theater, The Maltz Jupiter Theater and others. She was most recently in the writers’ room for the new limited series, La Joconde, directed by Jodie Foster, which you’ll see at some point soon on streaming! She also recently adapted one of her plays with Universal Television, sold it to the studio and wrote the pilot for NBC. She was featured in American Theatre Magazine 6 Theatre Workers You Should Know. Represented by WME (Bash Naran) for film/tv and managed by Michael Claassen (Writ Large). Member of the Dramatist Guild and AEA. English and Spanish language.  @hannahbenitezzz

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