Tina Benko

Ms. Benko recently performed in Branden Jacobs Jenkins 2024 Tony Award winning play Appropriate on Broadway. Other recent credits include the premieres of David Ives' Pamela Palmer at Williamstown, Emily Mann's adaptation of The Pianist at George Street Playhouse and Claudia Rankin's Help at The Shed. Other Broadway credits include: The Rose Tattoo, The Crucible, MacBeth, The Cherry Orchard, Top Girls, and Not About Nightingales. Off Broadway includes: Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem at Lincoln Center, SpindleShuttleNeedle at Clubbed Thumb, Scenes From a Marriage and The Little Foxes both directed by Ivo Van Hove for NY Theatre Workshop, 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) and Daniel Fish's Who Left This Fork Here at Baryshnikov Arts, and the international tour of Toni Morrison's play Desdemona directed by Peter Sellars. Film and TV credits include: The Rehearsal ( Emmy/best supporting actress/ digital series),Kaleidoscope, Mother May I Have a Kidney, Nobody Wants to Shoot a Woman, Mapplethorpe, Life After You, The Sound of Silence, Can You Ever Forgive Me, The Scottish Play, Mary, Fair Market Value, Turn: Washington Spies, Monsterland, The Other Two, FBI Most Wanted, Raising Kanan. 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, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Page 73, NewYork Stage and Film, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. She has taught at Carnegie Mellon, HB Studios, Fordham University, and Columbia University.