Most recent credits include: The Rose Tattoo (Broadway, 2019), Choir Boy (Broadway, 2019) and Lobby Hero (Broadway, 2018). He previously directed Adam Bock's The Drunken City and Sarah Schulman's Manic Flight Reaction at Playwrights Horizons. Other New York credits include Adam Bock's Swimming in the Shallows, Leslye Headland's Bachelorette and Terrence McNally's Some Men (Second Stage); Lloyd Suh's American Hwangap, Robert Farquhar's Bad Jazz, Roland Schimmelpfennig's Arabian Night and Brooke Berman's Smashing (The Play Company); Gina Gionfriddo's US Drag (stageFARM); Bert V. Royal's Dog Sees God (The Century Center); Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Dark Matters (Rattlestick Theater); Jonathan Tolin's The Last Sunday ... read more
Bennett Leak, Second Stage Theater's Director of Artistic Production, has been named Interim Artistic Director for the 2024-25 Season.
Bennett Leak has worked in New York theater in various capacities for nearly two decades. He joined Second Stage in 2015 as the Director of Special Events, producing large scale fundraisers and raising over $7M for the organization, eventually becoming Associate Artistic Director in 2019 and Director of Artistic Production in 2021. Throughout his tenure, Leak has produced over 20 plays both on Broadway at the Hayes and off-Broadway at the Tony Kiser Theater and McGinn Cazale Theater. He has shepherded numerous ... read more