Ms. Benko recently performed in Claudia Rankine’s play,?Help,?at The Shed and in Macbeth on Broadway. Other Broadway credits include: The Rose Tattoo, The Crucible, The Cherry Orchard, Top Girls, and Not About Nightingales. Theatre credits include SpindleShuttleNeedle at Clubbed Thumb, Scenes From a Marriage and The Little Foxes both directed by Ivo Van Hove, John Guare's Nantucket Sleighride at Lincoln Center, Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day for Colt Couer, Rajiv Joseph's Describe The Night for The Atlantic Theatre Company, Julius Caesar for Shakespeare in the Park/The Public, Julie Taymor's production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Theatre For A New Audience, Elfriede Jellinek's Jackie (Lucille Lortel nomination),Toni Morrison's Desdemona directed by Peter Sellars, and Daniel Fish's Who Left This Fork Here at Baryshnikov Arts Center. Film and TV credits include: The Rehearsal ( Emmy/best supporting actress/ digital series), Mapplethorpe, Life After You,The Sound of Silence, Can You Ever Forgive Me, The Scottish Play, Mary, Fair Market Value, Turn: Washington Spies, Monsterland, Flesh and Bone, The Other Two, FBI Most Wanted, Raising Kanan, Chappelle’s Show, Jigsaw. Ms. Benko has performed with Improvisational troupes Improbable UK, Theatresports, and Madcap, and has been involved in new play development at New Dramatists, The Lark, NewYork Theatre Workshop, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, NewYork Stage and Film, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. She has taught at Carnegie Mellon, NY Film Academy, HB Studios, Fordham University, and Columbia University.






? Tess Steinkolk
Adjunct Associate Professor, Theatre