Benita de Wit (they/them) is a non-binary Australian director based in New York. They specialize in theatre, film and multidisciplinary projects. Benita is the Associate Director for Jamie Lloyd’s Sunset Boulevard on Broadway starring Nicole Scherzinger. Most recently they were the Resident Director for SIX on Broadway the Assistant Director for Straight Line Crazy at The Shed starring Ralph Fiennes as Robert Moses.

Directing credits include Small Mouth Sounds (Circle in the Square Theatre School), The Moors (Theatre Row), The Laramie Project (Pace University), Slaughterhouse (Belvoir St Theatre), Razorhurst (Hayes Theatre Co), Salty (Access Theatre) and Bat Out of Hell (New York City Center, US & UK tours, Associate Director).

Benita is an SDC Member, a Barbara Whitman Award 2024 Finalist, a New Georges affiliated artist and has been an artist in residence at Barn Arts, Catwalk Residency and Vox Theatre Festival. Their work has been performed at National Sawdust, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the New York Public Library, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Playwrights Horizons Theater School as well as in London, Edinburgh and Australia. Benita has an MFA in Directing from Columbia University and is on Faculty at Circle in the Square Theatre School.

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