Faculty News

On Monday, January 19th at 8 pm, The Public Theater will present The 24 Hour Plays®: A Bennington Alumni Tribute to Nicky Martin. This one night–only benefit will bring together Bennington College alumni—including Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globe winners and nominees—to write, cast, rehearse, and present six one-act plays within a 24-hour period. The event kicks off The 24 Hour Plays® 20th anniversary season.

In Susan Sgorbati’s course "Solving the Impossible,” 22 Bennington students navigated multiple constituencies and local government agencies, working with the Village of North Bennington to reduce local energy consumption by converting to LED streetlights.

Hundreds of literary fans and notables gathered in Washington D.C. last week for a celebration of what would have been longtime former faculty member Bernard Malamud's 100th year. 

With her current exhibition at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, faculty member Liz Deschenes—recently dubbed a “giant of post-conceptual photography” by the New York Times—“turns the gallery into a camera,” writes one critic. Read more.

MFA alumna Megan Mayhew Bergman's forthcoming collection of stories, Almost Famous Women, received a starred review from Kirkus, and is an Indie Next Pick for winter. Due out in January, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston called it "heartbreaking and lovely".