The Constant Companion
“There’s something really sort of poignant about this play; what starts as something that seems like a somewhat cookie-cutter sci-fi-ish piece becomes introspective and altogether representative of what it means to be a human being. The dynamic between Fran and Liz is incredibly engaging.”
–Pittsburgh New Works Festival
Imagining Felicity
“His work is literate, playful, conceptual without being intellectual— and his characters (much like my experience of some of Chekhov’s characters) often have such an obsessive passion for self exploration that the results can be tragic and ridiculous simultaneously.”
–Peter Guttmacher
Not Just Another Christmas Carol
“Don’t ask. Chuck Dickens’ prim classic is tussled and ruffled in this egg nog-spiked twist by local playwright Benjamin Dean. Past, present and future collide and tangle in a wacky web of acerbic silliness.”
–Sonoma County Independent
“The story moves comically and, what appears to be spontaneously, through two dimensions at once. There is the personal and immediate dimension of the actor’s lives, their personality problems with each other, their professional quibbles and struggles, desires and needs.”
“There is so much going on, the entire production feels like enchanted chaos.”
–The Press Democrat