BIO
Benjamin Pelteson is an actor whose work spans theater and television.
His recent stage work includes the world premiere of Eleanor Burgess's Galilee, 34, opposite Amy Brenneman, developed through the Pacific Playwrights Festival. He received a Barrymore nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Play for Angels in America at the Wilma Theater.
His theater credits include Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Denver Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, George Street Playhouse, the Wilma Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, Capital Rep, Pittsburgh Public Theater, and Northern Stage, among others. He has developed new work at the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Public Theater / NYSF, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Primary Stages, Lark Play Development Center, Epic Theatre Ensemble, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
His television credits include Best Medicine, StartUp, Homeland, The Blacklist, The Americans, Unforgettable, Law & Order, and Guiding Light, the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Silly Little Game, and an upcoming network pilot (summer 2026).
Benjamin trained at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, where he received the Helen Wayne Rauh Award for Acting, and at the Moscow Art Theatre School.
press
“His key scenes are both subtle and operatic.”
— Huffington Post
“He ranges with precision from hilarious to snotty to explosive.”
— Denver Post
“Benjamin Pelteson makes a compelling figure of a patient in whom suffering has extinguished everything except fanatical certainty.”