Bensinger grew up in Los Angeles and attended the Webb School of California.
as an English Major at Yale before attending UCLA Film School where he received his MFA.
[1] He began his career writing features and wrote and directed the film Just Looking.
Bensinger moved from features to TV in the late nineties and has written on numerous shows including The Cape (1996),[2] The Pretender, Beverly Hills 90210, Titans, Going to California, Dragnet, Cold Case, Justice, Viva Laughlin, Harper's Island, Parenthood, Prime Suspect, Masters of Sex, Nashville, The Good Wife, Notorious and This Is Us.
His monograph There and Away won first place in the International Photography Awards/Lucie Foundation competition in 2018.