Benjamin Graber at sixty-two is appearing as a playwright. Previously he performed as a hippie doctor, a sex doctor, a psychiatrist, and a neurobiologist co-authoring Woman’s Orgasm in print continuously since 1975. His The Cloacal Nerve published in Medical Hypotheses in 1981 postulates the neural pathways for human orgasm. In 2002 the Kinsey Institute Library opened a Collection of his papers. As a playwright he has co-authored the one act play, Snipped, performed locally during the 2006 Shelterbelt Instant Play Festival and is scheduled to be produced again locally in March 2007 at Revolutions at the PS Collective in Omaha where two of his short plays have also been performed: End of Limerence and The Hippie and The Guru. His play Party Favor was read at the 2007 Great Plains Theatre Conference. An M.D without a bachelor’s degree he is: in the BFA program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Writer’s Workshop; is enrolled in the Masters Program in the Theatre Department at UNO; and the undergraduate playwriting program at Metro Community College also in Omaha. Recently three of his plays have been scheduled to be read in two evenings prefatory to submission for consideration in the 2008 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's Michael Kanin Playwritng Awards Program. .
He lives in Omaha with his wife, Cindie, and his boxer, Rex.
BENJAMIN
GRABER COLLECTION AT KINSEY INSTITUTE LIBRARY
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