Ben is an Associate Artist of Curve. He trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in London where he was honoured to be awarded a Fellowship in 2021.

West End designs include: Clueless (Trafalgar Theater), The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium), 42nd Street (Sadlers Wells), The Great British Bakeoff Musical (Noel Coward), Grease (Dominion), The Drifters Girl (Garrick), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (London Palladium), Heathers (Soho Place, Theatre Royal Haymarket), Young Frankenstein (Garrick), Inala (Peacock), Annie (Piccadilly), Robin Hood, Peter Pan, Jack & the Beanstalk, Pantoland at The Palladium, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Snow White, Dick Whittington and Cinderella (London Palladium), Breakfast at Tiffanys (Theatre Royal Haymarket), All the Fun of the Fair (Garrick) and Dancing in the Streets (Cambridge).

Regional and UK tours include: The Merry Widow (Glyndebourne Opera), Beautiful, What the Butler Saw (Curve/Theatre Royal Bath), The Great British Bakeoff Musical (Cheltenham), Sunset Boulevard, The Color Purple At Home (Streamed from Curve), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Shrek, 42nd Street, Annie, Heathers, The Cher Show, The Addams Family, The Osmonds, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Rough Crossing, Dracula, Rock of Ages, La Cage Aux Folles (UK Tours), The Comedy of Errors, Pieces of String (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Love on the Links, Before the Party (Salisbury Playhouse), Billy Elliot, My Beautiful Laundrette, An Officer and a Gentleman, Sunset Boulevard, Beautiful Thing (Curve/UK tour), The Importance of Being Ernest (Birmingham  Rep), Kiss Me Kate (WNO/Opera North), Saturday Night Fever (Theatre Royal, Bath/UK tour), The Tempest, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It (Stafford Shakespeare Festival), The Memory of Water (New Vic, Stoke), Our House (New Wolsey, Ipswich/UK tour), Sherlock Holmes, Angus Thongs and Even more Snogging (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Merrily We Roll Along (Theatre Clwyd).

International Includes: Wicked (Teatro Santander, Sao Paulo), Abenteuerland (Capitol Theatre, Dusseldorf), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Toronto and Australian National Tour), We Will Rock You (Manila & World Tour), Chess (Tokyo & Osaka), La Clemenza di Tito (Opéra de Lausanne / Bilbao Opera), Romeo und Julia (Theater Trier), 42nd Street, Annie, Chess (Toronto), The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Life, Strangers On A Train, Sweet Charity, Tommy (English Theatre, Frankfurt), Legally Blonde (South Korea), Inala (Sadlers Wells/International tour), Faust, 1984 (Altes Schauspielhaus, Stuttgart), Dracula (Singapore/Bangkok) and Voices of The Amazon.

Television includes: The Prince’s Trust Awards (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), The Classic Brit Awards (Royal Albert Hall), The Olivier Awards 2011-2024 (2014 & 2019 Knight of Illumination Award for Best Lighting) (Royal Opera House and Royal Albert Hall), The Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra (Royal Festival Hall) and Il Divo (Coliseum).

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