ALICA DAINE BENNING

writer, playwright, performer

PLAYS

BREAK is a new, alternative coming-of-age story about the consequences of leaving a small town behind-- and returning years later.

Logline: When Annie, the success story of her small hometown, as she returns home and asks for her old job back at a Coyote Ugly-esque country bar, she must face the consequences of having left her old life behind.

BREAK received an 8 rating on The Black List!
"Men are feared, women are gaslit, and no one can be trusted, but Annie still fights to break free from the cycle."
- Black List reviewer, May 2022

Woo Girls! is like a coming-of-age play if it were about already being of age but desperately not wanting to be. And also yelling “WOO!” a lot.

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Logline: Over the course of one ill-fated Girls’ Night Out, five unhinged women are forced to acknowledge their relationships to patriarchy in order to reconnect with each other and themselves. :)

WOO GIRLS! was a Second Rounder at AFF 2022
WOO GIRLS! made it to the second round of the Austin Film Festival's playwriting competition and is a Second Round Distinguished Play

sleepover is a short surrealist dream play about femininity, love, cruelty, and compassion.

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logline: ani and beatrice, two young girls having a sleepover (or are they?) navigate the intricacies of female friendship while teaching each other self-love and acceptance in this surrealist dream play about femininity, love, cruelty, and compassion.

Winner of 2022 Take Ten Playwriting Competition!
sleepover was chosen as one of seven short plays by emerging playwrights as part of Theater Masters' Take Ten playwriting competition in 2022. It was performed via Zoom in May 2022 as part of the Take Ten New Plays Festival.