RESUME

Mikayla Gold Benson is a director and actor whose work calls audiences into the present moment. She brings an electric curiosity to the stage and rehearsal room, with sketches and bold questions.

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For Mikayla, to direct a play is to begin again, not start fresh, but to interrupt familiar habits and reorient ourselves towards a collective mission. Mikayla aims to facilitate and guide work that provokes change in the room, in the audience, her communities, and all neighbors.

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She believes that theatre's greatest strength lies in knowing that it cannot and should not be made alone. When a play truly speaks to her, it’s not her voice that carries it — it’s the shared voice of a collective that commits to making something urgent and personally resonant, together.

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Mikayla builds work that listens deeply, moves boldly, and asks us all to look a little closer. In her work with female ensembles, she creates space for discoveries that can’t happen alone — moments of recognition where voices meet, sharpen one another, and open the door to something not yet named.