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Executive Director of Stonestreet Studios
Wrote and directed Rain Without Thunder, a feature film starring Betty Buckley, Jeff Daniels, Linda Hunt, Frederic Forrest, Graham Greene and Austin Pendleton. Released nationally in 1993 by Orion Classics. Premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival and was featured at several other film festivals including Ft. Lauderdale, Ann Arbor, Berlin, Human Rights Watch, Dublin and Locarno, Switzerland.
Wrote and directed The Code, a feature film starring an ensemble of young actors, primarily cast with drama students from The Tisch School of the Arts of NYU. The film was shot in the context of a semester’s work for the drama students, and was one of their projects.
For the theater, Mr. Bennett has written Juden Rift, a two-act, full-length stageplay showcased at The Column Theater and remounted in the Fall 1998 at Stonestreet Studios. Wrote The Frozen Infirmary, a two-act, full-length stageplay presented in Ensemble Studio Theater’s Octoberfest in NYC. Mr. Bennett and his wife, Alyssa Rallo Bennett, have adapted Juden Rift for the screen. Mr. Bennett wrote Madras, a full-length stageplay and Body Fluid, a two-act full-length stageplay which was given a staged reading at the Ensemble Studio Theatre's 1993 Octoberfest in New York.
Short films include Dance for Me Velma, about a mysterious weekend in the Catskill Mountains spent by a hard-driving Wall Street female executive. Directed by Alyssa Rallo Bennett, it premiered at the Brooklyn Film Festival in 1998. Gary also wrote The Weather Report, also directed by Ms. Bennett, which premiered at The Santa Cruz Film Festival, and subsequently screened in Canada at the Light Plays Tricks Film Festival and Back East Film Festival in New Jersey. Two other short films, The Pitch and Jack & Jill both recently finished post-production. Earlier on, Gary wrote and directed The Butterfly Effect, a thirty-minute narrative produced in video for which he won a College Emmy Award. He also wrote and directed Twists and In the Middle.
Gary Bennett co-wrote The Pack with Alyssa, a feature length screenplay which has completed production and has been accepted in several film festivals including the Sedona Film Festival and the Hoboken Film Festival. Alyssa directed, and it stars Lucie Arnaz and a large ensemble of actors.
Gary also wrote Who Killed Juliet Matlin?, another feature-length screenplay that is currently in development along with Mentor, yet another feature-length screenplay he wrote.
In addition, Gary wrote The Exchange, a television pilot which was directed by Chris Lutkin in 2001.
Gary is currently writing a novel, three screenplays, a stage play and a webisode entitled The 47th Floor. The 47th Floor can be viewed at www.the47thfloor.com. Gary has written over seventy episodes of The 47th Floor, all of which have been shot and primarily cast with drama students of the Tisch School of the Arts. About one episode is posted a week.
Gary has been a photographer for over thirty-five years. He has specialized primarily in portrait work at his studio at Stonestreet Studios, but has also documented urban life in and around New York City. You can see some of Gary's portrait and journalistic photography at his website at www.bennettpictures.com.
Mr. Bennett has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Science in Business from SUNY at Buffalo (1975), a Law Degree and a Master of Social Welfare Degree from the University of California at Berkeley (1979). Mr. Bennett is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the American Bar Association. He is also a member of the Professional Photographers of America.
See www.radicalactor.com for many of Gary's short screenplays and other writings as well as Gary's blog at www.parodical.com. You
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