[1][13][14] While Benson specializes in noncommercial work, in 2019 she directed an advertisement starring Michael C. Hall which aired in the 2019 Super Bowl entitled Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical to promote a brand of candy; Forbes described it as the "best Super Bowl ad of the year".

[17] During the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, when the theatre world was particularly hard hit, Benson and the other directors of Soho Rep, Cynthia Flowers and Meropi Peponides, noticed that many creative people were abandoning the city.

[4] Her 2019 production of Fairview received numerous accolades: it won a Pulitzer Prize for best play and Benson was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her direction.

[4] She emigrated to the United States and got her master's degree in fine arts in 2004 from the Brooklyn College graduate theatre program.

[27] Gothamist critic John Del Signore agreed with that assessment, and wrote that her "flawless production succeed(ed) in rendering's Kane's bitter world view with stunning clarity and courage".

[28] Her production of Fairview was described by another critic as a "hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure".