Brendan Beseth

Biography

Brendan Beseth is a screenwriter and playwright from Southern California. His screenplay Luckytown was made into a movie starring Kirsten Dunst, James Caan, Luis Guzman, and Vincent Kartheiser. His plays Bookshop and Technically Dead were featured at the William Inge Theatre Festival, and his play A Vegas Kind of Love was a finalist for Rogue Machine’s Premier Award for Best New Play at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Brendan has been a member of the Actors Studio West Playwrights and Directors Unit, and a reader, judge, and analyst for various screenplay competitions and movie studios, including Blue Cat, Film Independent, and Summit Entertainment. He has an MFA in playwriting from the University of Arkansas. Before coming to Oberlin, Brendan taught screenwriting at Kent State University.