Start Time: doors at 7:00, show at 7:30. done by 8:45
Eliza Bent’s Penguin in Your Ear is a classic Bentertainment consisting of jokes, puns, and uncanny accents. Philosophical stories and anecdotes that go nowhere about academia, relationship status, family, IBS, and America’s favorite narrative: second acts. This intrepid new-ish work has bowed in Brooklyn, Chicago, LA and Omaha (Bent is big in Omaha) and lasts a mere 50 minutes because Bent believes “brevity is the Sol Lewitt.” Come see what Hi! Drama gave a “Major Smiley Face” to and watch a performer that Time Out New York once described as “immensely likable.” Comedy is tragedy plus *thyme* … that’s Bentertainment!
Playwright and performer Eliza Bent is the love child between Lily Tomlin, Pee Wee Herman, and Mr. Peanut. Bent’s Bentertainments include solo-ish works (KAREN, I SAID, TOILET FIRE, and ALOHA, ALOHA, OR WHEN I WAS QUEEN), plays (Indeed, friend!, The Hotel Colors), adaptations (The Beyonce, She of the Voice), and hybrid affairs (Bonnie’s Last Flight, Real Talk / Kip Talk, Blue Wizard / Black Wizard, Pen Pals Meet). Bent’s shows have been developed, workshopped, commissioned, and produced at Abrons Arts Center, the New
Ohio, the Atlantic Theatre, the Bushwick Starr, the Exponential Festival, and New York
Theatre Workshop’s Next Door Series. Residencies: MacDowell, LMCC’s Workspace, SPACE on Ryder Farm, New Georges, Target Margin Institute Fellow, Casa Zia Lina, Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Ground Floor, Beach64, and Pilot Balloon. As an actor Bent has performed in pint-sized New York theatres, regionally in Omaha and Louisville, and internationally with the performance ensemble Half Straddle. BA in philosophy Boston College, MFA in playwriting Brooklyn College. Bent is currently a lecturer in the Radio TV & Film department at Northwestern University.