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ABOUT

Ben is a lighting designer for theater, concerts, dance, installations, and events. He is a four-time Tony Award nominee as well as an Obie, Lortel, IRNE, and Ovation Award winner. Ben is currently represented on Broadway by Maybe Happy Ending at the Belasco Theater, and The Notebook at the Schoenfeld Theater. Recent Broadway credits include Mary Jane (starring Rachel McAdams), Days of Wine and Roses (starring Kelli O'Hara & Brian Darcy James), Goodnight, Oscar (starring Sean Hayes); The Collaboration (Starring Paul Bettany & Jeremy Pope); Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (Featuring Jefferson Mays);   The Rose Tattoo (starring Marisa Tomei); Derren Brown: Secret (James Earl Jones Theater); Regina Spektor: Live On Broadway (Lunt-Fontanne Theater); Ayad Akhtar’s Junk (Lincoln Center);  Six Degrees of Separation (starring Allison Janney, Corey Hawkins, and John Benjamin Hickey); Deaf West Theater’s Spring Awakening (Lena Horne Theater); Fully Committed (starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson); and Fun Home (Broadway, Off-Broadway, 1st National Tour, London).

Ben has designed concerts and tours for recording artists including Beirut, The National, Regina Spektor, Sufjan Stevens, and St. Vincent, and has collaborated on several large-scale concert/theater hybrid performances including Road Trip featuring Bang On A Can All-Stars (BAM Opera House / Ford Theater, LA), Reconfiguration – An Evening with Other Lives (BAM Opera House), Planetarium featuring Bryce Dessner, Nico Mulhy, & Sufjan Stevens (BAM Opera House / Disney Concert Hall, LA / Sydney Opera House), and Black Mountain Songs featuring Bryce Dessner, Richard Reed Parry, & the Brooklyn Youth Chorus (BAM Harvey Theater / Barbican, London).

Ben serves as an Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College where he teaches lighting design and programming, and he’s the founder and principal designer at Stanton Collaborative, a full-service design firm specializing in concerts, events, and art installations. Ben graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with degrees in theater and jazz performance. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, the projection designer Lucy Mackinnon, and their two children.

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SELECTED BROADWAY CREDITS
Maybe Happy Ending
Maybe Happy Ending
Maybe Happy Ending
The Belasco Theater
The Notebook
The Notebook
The Notebook
The Schoenfeld Theater
Days of Wine and Roses
Days of Wine and Roses
Days of Wine and Roses
Studio 54
Mary Jane
Mary Jane
Mary Jane
Starring Rachel McAdams
Good Night, Oscar
Good Night, Oscar
Good Night, Oscar
Starring Sean Hayes

THE COLLABORATION
THE COLLABORATION
THE COLLABORATION
STARRING JEREMY POPE & PAUL BETTANY
FUN HOME
FUN HOME
FUN HOME
CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE THEATER
REGINA SPEKTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
LIVE AT THE LUNT FONTANNE
SPRING AWAKENING
SPRING AWAKENING
SPRING AWAKENING
FEATURING DEAF WEST THEATER
JUNK
JUNK
JUNK
THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER
ROSE TATTOO
ROSE TATTOO
ROSE TATTOO
STARRING MARISA TOMEI
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
STARRING JEFFERSON MAYS
DERREN BROWN SECRET
DERREN BROWN SECRET
DERREN BROWN SECRET
THE JAMES EARL JONES THEATER
FULLY COMMITTED
FULLY COMMITTED
FULLY COMMITTED
STARRING JESSE TYLER FERGUSON
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
THE BARRYMORE THEATER
SEMINAR
SEMINAR
SEMINAR
STARRING ALAN RICKMAN