Benita de Wit

Benita is a Columbia University MFA Directing candidate originally from Sydney, Australia. In New York Benita has directed a range of new and devised work including her collaboration with visual artist Gabe Barcia-Colombo The Secret Society of Forbidden Literature (New York Public Library),Cosplay (Emily Comisar), the serialized apartment drama Audrina (Independent), and verbatim, multimedia project Perspectives from the Nepal Earthquake (Schapiro Theatre). Recently she assisted Gregory Mosher on the African Tour of Antigone in the World and co-directed The Drowned World (SITI Studios) with Leon Ingulsrud.
Columbia directing credits include The Three Sisters (Columbia University), Private Lives(Columbia University) and her 2016 thesis project,Undrown’d: Seeking Asylum, which uses Shakespeare’s The Tempest, news media and first-hand accounts from refugees to tell the story of a father and daughter awaiting processing in an immigration detention centre.

In Australia Benita worked for festivals and companies including The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Sydney Festival, The Sydney Fringe and Griffin Theatre Company. She graduated from University of Sydney with a BA (Performance Studies) and is a Dame Joan Sutherland Fellow, Ars Musica Australis Fellow, and Ian Potter Cultural Trust Fellow.