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BENJAMINBRISENO.COM
     
Born in
Lafayette, Louisiana, Benny has been on the move for most of his
life.
He has lived in Fort
Worth, Philadelphia, Tulsa, Houston, Santa Fe, San Antonio, the
Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and is now living in the Los Feliz
section of Los Angeles.
He received his B.F.A. in Music Theatre from the College of Santa Fe
in May 2008,
where he starred in many Greer Garson Theatre productions and
student films. He
was also a regular performer at Vanessie's and other Santa Fe piano
bars,
performed in commercials and did voice-over work.
Briseno has
been busy filming an independent film in Los Angeles, traveling to
Mexico
for a soft drink commercial, taping other commercials, and singing
in local jazz
and piano bars. He also appeared as Benedick
in Much Ado About Nothing and as
Marc Antony in Julius Caesar for the Long Beach Shakespeare
Company.
Prior to his LA move, he performed the title role in Rancho
Pancho, a play by Gregg Barrios
which chronicles the short-lived, but intense, relationship
between playwright Tennessee Williams
and south Texan Pancho Rodriguez. The show debuted in San
Antonio before
traveling to Provincetown
Massachusetts for the Tennessee
Williams Theatre Festival,
September 25th through 28th, 2008.
Benny also
performed with the Santa
Fe Opera as Vittorio
in their One Hour Opera
community performance of I
Due Timidi (The
Timid Twosome).
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