| Ben Stanton is an internationally-recognized lighting designer based in Brooklyn, New York. He has been nominated for three Henry Hewes Design Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and won the 2011 Lortel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man (Manhattan Theater Club).
Ben’s work can currently be seen in the Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar (The John Golden Theater, New York), Gabe McKinley’s CQ/CX (Atlantic Theater Co., New York), Zayd Dohrn’s Outside People (Vineyard Theater, New York), Lorenzo Pisoni’s Humor Abuse (American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco), and on tour with the bands Beirut (the Rip Tide American Tour) and St. Vincent (Strange Mercy Tour). In May 2011, he collaborated with singer-songwriter/ musician Sufjan Stevens and video artist Deborah Johnson to create the visuals for Sufjan’s Age of Adz tour. The spectacle-driven concerts received rave reviews and played to sold-out crowds across Europe, the UK, and the “Celebrate Brooklyn!” Prospect Park Bandshell.
Ben’s career and work are profiled in American Theater Magazine, Lighting & Sound America, Stage Directions, and the Rosco International website. He is on faculty at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU, has served as either Artist in Residence or Guest Lecturer at Harvard University, The California Institute of the Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst, UNC Charlotte, and Duke University, and is a New York Theater Workshop ‘Usual Suspect.’ His lighting design for John Belluso’s The Poor Itch is on exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.
In 2006 he founded Stanton Collaborative, a full-service lighting design firm focused on bringing progressive visual aesthetics to non-theater markets such as live music, architecture, events, installations, and performance art.
Upcoming Projects:
Untitled – Song Cycle composed by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, & Nico Muhly, London, Eindhoven, Amsterdam, Sydney
Assistance by Leslye Headland, Directed by Trip Cullman, Playwrights Horizons, NYC
Regrets by Matt Charman, Directed by Carolyn Cantor, Manhattan Theater Club
Title and Deed by Will Eno, Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, Signature Theater, NYC
Credits:
Broadway:
Seminar by Theresa Rebeck, Directed by Sam Gold, The Golden Theater, Opening Night: November 20, 2011
Off Broadway:
New York Theater Workshop, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, Second Stage Theater, Signature Theater, MCC Theater, Roundabout Underground, LCT 3, Minetta Lane Theater, The Play Company, The Kitchen Performance Space, Edge Theater Co., The Century Center Theater, New World Stages, The StageFARM, The Daryl Roth Theater, The Classical Theater of Harlem, The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Soho Rep, The Cherry Lane, The New York Muscial Theater Festival, & The Drama Theater at Juilliard.
Regional Theater:
The Mark Taper Forum (CA), The Old Globe (CA), La Jolla Playhouse (CA), South Coast Rep.(CA), The Paper Mill Playhouse (NJ), The Huntington Theater (MA), The Intiman Theater (Seattle), Long Wharf Theater (CT), Dallas Theater Center (TX), Hartford Stage (CT), Actors Theater of Louisville (KY), Two River Theater (NJ), Pasadena Playhouse (CA), Bay Street Theater (NY), New York Stage and Film (NY), Chautauqua Theater (NY), The Hangar Theater (NY), Adirondack Theater Festival (NY), The Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Live Concert:
Sufjan Stevens, Age Of Adz TOUR, 2011
Beirut: The Rip Tide Tour 2011
St. Vincent: Strange Mercy Tour 2011
David Byrne at the Bowery Ballroom, NYC, 2004
Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad & Beautiful at the Daryl Roth Theater, NYC, 2006
Astroland with Less The Band at The Kitchen, NYC, 2008
Bowfire Tour and live DVD taping at Center in the Square, Kitchener, ON, 2007
The Pierces: concerts at The Box & The Gramercy Theater, NYC, 2009
Opera & Dance:
GERALDCASELDANCE @ Dance New Amsterdam
The New Jersey Ballet
The Opera Company of Brooklyn
The Des Moines Metro Opera
The Connecticut Grand Opera.
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