Benita de Wit - Director
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 Tony Award-winning Sunset Blvd 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.
Jessica Charles - Playwright
Jessica Charles is a Black queer woman-identifying playwright, storyteller, and cultural worker whose work holds and uplifts historically underrepresented voices. Her passion is bringing to life nuanced stories of her community. Born and raised in Oakland, CA with family throughout Louisiana and New York, the rich tapestry of Black people, culture, her ancestry, and her upbringing shape all of her art. As a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the University of California, Berkeley, Jessica’s work has been workshopped, heard, and seen in spaces and stages across the world. Most recently, her play Antiquated F*ckery had its off-Broadway debut at 59E59 Theaters. She was a finalist for the National Black Theatre’s 24/26 I AM SOUL Playwriting Residency and a SPACE on Ryder Farm 2024 Creative Resident. Jessica has also been a member of Liberation Theater Company’s New Voices Writing Residency 19/20 and a finalist for The Lark’s Van Lier New Voices Fellowship. Her plays include In the tradition, High, The Road Trip, Inflatables, "the genuine minstrel show!", Antiquated F*ckery, [THE BLACK WOMAN] and The Myth, White Savior, and We are all Psychopaths.
My Black Job Productions - Producers
My Black Job Productions is a boutique-style, multidisciplinary producing initiative centering Black artists living within the margins of the margins—those navigating the intersections of race, gender, queerness, ability, geography, and class.
We build creative infrastructure and reimagine producing as a liberatory practice. Our model blends cultural organizing, radical hospitality, and person-first production to resource artists whose stories are often excluded from dominant narratives. We are not a company chasing credit—we are a strategy rooted in community.
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