Rick Compton and Betsy Bennett  (Music, Lyrics, & Book) are Compton & Bennett.

They have been writing and performing original shows since 1995, plowing the fertile fields of political and social satire in and around Naples, Florida.

Betsy is a life-long theatre denizen, starting professionally in summer stock when she was 15. She has a theatre degree from Albion College, and followed that with an internship at Playwrights Horizons in New York City. Betsy co-founded Arcane Theatriks, a professional company in Chicago. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild.

Rick leads the creative life since escaping from the corporate world in 1988. Since then, he founded Via Colori®, a small chain of annual street painting festivals; toured Japan as keyboardist for The Platters; and authored a children’s activity book called The Essential Street Painter (Simon & Schuster).

Rick’s won several regional awards for magazine articles and is a member of The Dramatists Guild.