Name: "Penguin in Your Ear" written and performed by Eliza Bent
Start: 2024-03-01T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-03-01T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Benson Theatre

"Penguin in Your Ear" written and performed by Eliza Bent

Great Plains Theatre Commons

Watch Eliza Bent, downtown experimental New York theatre scene  mainstay perform her latest stand-up adjacent work-in-progress.

Benson Theatre

<p><em><em>Penguin in Your Ear </em></em>is a stand-up adjacent work-in-progress written and performed by frequent GPTC collaborator and guest artist, Eliza Bent in collaboration with Benson Theatre. Held on the March Benson First Friday!</p><p>This piece debuted at NYC's Brick Theatre last fall. <em><em>Penguin in Your Ear</em></em>, directed by the legendary Jess Barbagallo, features Bent’s classic stew of jokes, puns, uncanny accents, philosophical stories, anecdotes that go absolutely nowhere about new chapters, academia, relationship status, family, IBS, and America’s favorite narrative: second acts.</p><p>This new intrepid work lasts a mere 50 minutes because Bent believes “brevity is the Sol Lewitt.” Audiences will cringe, chuckle, and squirm when they aren’t audibly laughing, “lol-ing,” and clamoring for more.</p><h4><br></h4><h4>March 1, 2024 / 7:00pm - 8:00pm</h4><h4>Benson Theater, 6054 Maple St, Omaha, NE 68104</h4><h4>Free Admission</h4><p>--------</p><p><em><em>“Both as a performance artist and a wry confessor, Bent makes an impression. She’s this generation’s answer to Amy Sedaris: frank, weird and immensely likable.”</em></em> —<strong><strong>Time Out New York</strong></strong></p><p>Eliza Bent is a playwright, performer, and artistic director of Bentertainment. As the love child between Lily Tomlin, Pee Wee Herman, and Mr. Peanut Bent’s Bentertainments include solo-ish works (Karen, I Said, Toilet Fire and Aloha, Aloha, or When I Was Queen), plays (Indeed, friend!, On a Clear Day I Can See to Elba, The Hotel Colors), adaptations (The Beyonce, She of the Voice), and hybrid affairs (Bonnie’s Last Flight, Real Talk / Kip Talk, Blue Wizard / Black Wizard, Pen Pals Meet). Bent’s shows have been developed, workshopped, commissioned, and produced at Abrons Arts Center, the New Ohio, the Atlantic Theatre, the Bushwick Starr, the Exponential Festival, and New York Theatre Workshop’s Next Door Series. Residencies: MacDowell, LMCC’s Workspace, SPACE on Ryder Farm, New Georges, Target Margin Institute Fellow, Casa Zia Lina, Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Ground Floor, Beach64, and Pilot Balloon. As an actor Bent has performed in pint-sized New York theatres, regionally in Omaha and Louisville, and internationally with the performance ensemble Half Straddle. BA in philosophy Boston College, MFA in playwriting Brooklyn College. Bent is currently a lecturer in the Radio TV &amp; Film department at Northwestern University.</p>

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