Benjamin Marshall

About Benjamin Marshall

B. V. Marshall’s plays have earned recognition from HBO New Writers Workshop., New York’s Theatre for a New City, Chicago’s public radio station WBEZ and in play festivals from Alaska to Australia.  In addition to working as a journalist, he has published poetry in several small presses, including Obsidian and Phatitude . Previously he taught English in Arabic-speaking countries.  Awards: Five Playwriting fellowships from NJ State Council on the Arts, Fellowships from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, VCCA, NEH, and the Robert Chesley/ Victor Bumbalo foundation. Recently he received the Bauer-Boucher Award and the Stanley Drama Award for Incident at Willow Creek.  Currently:   Extended Play (Warner’s International Playwright Festival) White Gloves (L.B. Williams Festival New Circle Theatre) Beasts and Cakes (A.D. Players, Houston) In addition to ALAP, He is also a member of the Dramatists Guild, the New Play Exchange, New Circle Theatre, and the 9^th Floor, a collective of writers and actors in NYC BA from Kean University,  MFA  from  University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He is a professor of English at Middlesex County College and teaches playwriting at Wagner College.