Christopher Benincasa
Associate Producer

Christopher Benincasa joined State of the Arts in February 2001. He produces stories for the show and works on its overall production. Most recently, he won a 2008 Mid-Atlantic Emmy in the Outstanding Arts Program category for his work on the State of the Arts episode 20th Century Limited. He won his first Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award in 2003 in the Outstanding Magazine Format Broadcast category.

He won a 2005 national CINE Golden Eagle Award in the Arts, Leisure & Lifestyle category, and a 2005 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for Peters Valley, a half-hour documentary covering a year in the life of the Peters Valley Craft Education Center, located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.  The original music featured in Peters Valley was written and recorded by The Band Who Planted Trees.  Christopher - who played bass in the band when he was in college - remixed the music to create the soundtrack.

A graduate of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, he has a strong interest in the visual arts.  When not working on his favorite television show, he still manages to make and write about art.  His work is featured in current issues of American Abstract Artists Journal and The Structurist.  A native of New Brunswick, New Jersey, Christopher currently lives in Hunterdon County.