Tyler Bensinger


Tyler Bensinger is an American film and television writer, producer and film director.

Career

Bensinger grew up in Los Angeles and attended the Webb School of California. He earned his B.A. as an English Major at Yale before attending UCLA Film School where he received his MFA. 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, 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. He has been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award and an Emmy Award.
Bensinger is also an award winning photographer. His monograph "There and Away" won first place in the International Photography Awards/Lucie Foundation competition in 2018. Bensinger had a 15 page spread of his photographs in the Human Rights Issue of Lens Magazine in June 2020.