Des Bennett currently serves as the Community Engagement Manager at CST and leads the Scripts in Play reading group. They are a multi-hyphenated theater artist, facilitator, and maker dedicated to continued learning, iterative experimentation, and collective care as the framework for artistic endeavors. Their recent work includes serving as Assistant Director for Common Ground (Huntington Theater co) and directing My Body Is A Season (SpeakEasy Stage). Des has held Research Assistantships with Dani Snyder-Young PhD on her recent projects, Theatre participation and arts-integrated peer leadership in substance addiction recovery processes and Digital performance, wellness, and equity, and contributed to the article, “Procedurally authored performances of mindful practice: Theatre-for-one, audience labor and self-optimization,” (The Drama Review, 2021). Des holds a BA in Theater from Northeastern University.