Naomi Bennett, MFA, PhD
Performances
Selected:
Rock Out with Your Schnoz Out: The COVID Play. Writer and director. HopKins Black Box Performance Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. March 2023.
dist[Sense]. Concept and direction, devised and performed with ensemble on Zoom. HopKins Black Box Performance Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. 2020.
(dis)embodied in space: interactive art installation. Concept and direction, devised with the ensemble. HopKins Black Box Performance Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. 2019
Burnt City, Lighting Designer. Written and directed by Josh Hamzehee. HopKins Black Box Performance Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. 2019.
What is Carried by Clouds. Concept and design: video projection installation in conjunction with Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog x FLO/Fog x Beach, Emerald Necklace Conservatory, Jamaica Plain, MA. 2018.
Made possible by a grant from Barbara and Amos Hostetter and Eugene M. Lang Foundation. Nominated for HUBweek’s Provocative Performance Art award (as part of local performance initiative).
You Menstrual Me, Lighting Designer. Written and directed by Emily Graves. HopKins Black Box Performance Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. 2017.
The Creature from the Primordial World, Lighting and Projection Designer. Adapted and directed by Dr. Tracy Stephenson Shaffer. HopKins Black Box Performance Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. 2017.
Animal Rights, Adapted and directed by Dr. Chris Collins.
“Living Statue,” HopKins Black Box, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 2016.
“Certification,” Patti Pace Performance Festival, HopKins Black Box, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 2017.
Being Present. Concept and direction, devised with the ensemble via long-distance communication (Cambridge, MA, and Baton, Rouge, LA). HopKins Black Box Performance Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. 2016.
Shadow of the Valley. Performer, directed by Dr. David P. Terry, compiled by the ensemble. HopKins Black Box, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. 2016.
Back to the Future IV. Performer, written and directed by Patrick McElearney. HopKins Black Box, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. 2015.
Rollerland. Performer, devised by the ensemble, directed by Tracey Stephenson Shaffer.
HopKins Black Box, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. 2015.
Petit Jean Performance Festival, Morrilton, AR. 2015.
Hold Me Tight. Concept and direction, devised by the ensemble.
Artist-in-Residence. Schkapf, Hollywood, CA. 2014.
Arena Theatre, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. 2014.
Wings. Direction, written by Arthur Kopit. Complex Theatres, Hollywood Fringe Festival, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. 2013.
Nominated for Best Dance and Physical Theatre.