About Benn
Benn is originally from Providence and Foster, RI, and ended up in Colorado Springs in 1991. In college, he studied film, theatre and television and nearly all formats of writing. Benn has appeared in several stage productions including The Day They Shot John Lennon and Jeffrey with the Upstart Performing Ensemble, Da and All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten with the Masquers @ PPCC and Inherit the Wind with the Star Bar Players.
Benn has written and produced--sometimes directed, sometimes appeared in--several video motion picture projects under the name DockRat Entertainment and Comatose Picturez since 1993 including In the Darkness, with co-writer Scott Bechberger, Between Friends and Wonderbred, which was released to video in 2003. In 1999, Benn teamed up with regional stand-up comic Napoleon Hudson to create the Rocky Mountain based sketch comedy television show Loosen Up, which aired on cable TV in Colorado Springs and Denver for two seasons.
Benn's first feature length stageplay saw its world premier in 2000, produced by the Masquers @ PPCC in Colorado Springs, titled 24 Hours and Something Original. The production had a successful run and was welcomed with great to mediocre reviews from local newspapers. Since then, I've written several other stageplays including The War Over Tigger, Slow Kidz at Play, The Twilight of Nantucket, This Girl from Providence, Mourning News and Fat Farm, two of which he wrote during a six month stay near Geneve, Switzerland. More information and samples from each of his works are available by clicking on "Stageplays."
When Benn returned stateside, he re-teamed with stage and screen cohort Brian G. Felts (Da, Between Friends) to create the weekly MP3 movie talk show for our movie reviews website, Brian and Benn’s Movie Corner at www.dockratent.com.
Presently, Benn also works as the senior sports writer for Colorado Community Newspapers in the Denver area and continues to produce entertainment for the web. In addition, he serves as a publicist and creative consultant for the Go Go Gore Girls in Colorado Springs.
Learn more about Benn from his Facebook page . Hear Benn every week on Brian and Benn's Movie Corner at www.bbmc.dockratent.com.