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. Recent Broadway credits includeThe Notebook (the Schoenfeld Theater) 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.

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

TABLE 17 | MCC Theater, NYC
• 2024 Audelco Award Nomination

MARY JANE | The Friedman Theater, Broadway
• 2024 Hewes Design Award Nomination

LAS AVENTURAS DE JUAN PLANCHARD | Miami New Drama (co-design with Alejandro Fajardo)
• 2024 Carbonell Award Nomination: Outstanding Lighting design Play or Musical

THE NOTEBOOK | Chicago Shakespeare Theater
• 2023 JEFF Award Nomination

A CHRISTMAS CAROL | Nederlander Theater, Broadway
• 2023 TONY Award Nomination
• 2023 Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination
• 2023 Hewes Design Award Nomination

MAKE BELIEVE | Second Stage Theater, NYC
• 2020 Hewes Design Award Nomination

A CHRISTMAS CAROL | The Geffen Theater, Los Angeles
• 2019 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award: Best Lighting Design, Large Theater

THIS AIN’T NO DISCO |  The Atlantic Theater Co., NYC
• 2019 Hewes Design Award Nomination

THE MOTHER | The Atlantic Theater Co., NYC
• 2019 Hewes Design Award Nomination

MAN IN THE RING | Huntington Theater Co., Boston
• 2019 IRNE Award for Best Lighting Design, Large Theater

JUNK | Lincoln Center Theater, NYC
• 2018 TONY Award Nomination
• 2018 Hewes Design Award Nomination

THE LOW ROAD | The Public Theater
• 2018 Lucile Lortel Nomination
• 2018 Hewes Design Award Nomination

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE | Hartford Stage, CT
• 2018 Connecticut Critics Circle Award Nomination

YEN | MCC Theater, NYC
• 2017 Lucile Lortel Nomination

SPRING AWAKENING | Lena Horne Theater, Broadway
• 2016 TONY Award Nomination
• 2016 Drama Desk Nomination
• 2016 Outer Critics Circle Nomination
• 2016 Hewes Design Award Nomination

THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA McBRIDE | MCC Theater, NYC
• 2016 Lucile Lortel Nomination

MARJORIE PRIME | Playwrights Horizons, NYC
• 2016 Hewes Design Award Nomination

FUN HOME | Circle in the Square, Broadway
• 2015 TONY Award Nomination

Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design
• 2015 Obie Award

SPRING AWAKENING | Wallis Annenberg Center, Los Angeles
• 2015 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award: Best Lighting Design, Large Theater

OUR LADY OF KIBEHO | Signature Theater, NYC
• 2015 Drama Desk Nomination
• 2015 Audelco Award Nomination

THE NETHER | MCC Theater, NYC
• 2015 Lucile Lortel Nomination

FUN HOME | The Public Theater, NYC
• 2014 Lucile Lortel Nomination

MURDER BALLAD | Manhattan Theater Club, NYC
• 2013 Lucile Lortel Nomination
• 2013 Hewes Design Award Nomination

BELLEVILLE | New York Theater Workshop, NYC
• 2013 Lucile Lortel Nomination

THE WHIPPING MAN | Manhattan Theater Club, NYC
• 2011 Lucile Lortel Award
• 2011 Drama Desk Nomination
• 2011 Hewes Design Award Nomination

ANGELES IN AMERICA | Signature Theater, NYC
• 2011 Hewes Design Award Nomination

THE COWARD | Lincoln Center LCT3 - NYC
• 2011 Hewes Design Award Nomination

A COOL DIP IN THE BARREN SAHARAN CRICK | Playwrights Horizons, NYC
• 2010 Audelco Award Nomination

BROADWAY

MAYBE HAPPY ENDING | Belasco Theater, Opening Night 11.13.24

BEN PLATT: LIVE AT THE PALACE | Palace Theater, Opening Night 05.28.24

MARY JANE | Samuel J Friedman Theater, Opening Night 04.21.24

THE NOTEBOOK | Schoenfeld Theater, Opening Night 03.14.24

DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES | Studio 54, Opening Night 01.28.24

GOODNIGHT OSCAR | Belasco Theater, Opening Night 04.24.23

THE COLLABORATION | Samuel J Friedman Theater, Opening Night 12.20.22

A CHRISTMAS CAROL | The Nederlander Theater, Opening Night 11.21.22

THE ROSE TATTOO | American Airlines Theater, Opening Night 10.15.19

DERREN BROWN: SECRET | The James Earl Jones Theater, Opening Night 09.15.19

REGINA SPEKTOR: LIVE ON BROADWAY | The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Opening Night 06.20.19

JUNK  | The Vivan Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, Opening Night 11.02.17

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION | The Barrymore Theater, Opening Night 04.25.2017

FULLY COMMITTED  | The Lyceum Theater, Opening Night 04.25.2016

Deaf West’s SPRING AWAKENING  | The Lena Horne Theater, Opening Night 09.27.2015

FUN HOME  | Circle In The Square Theater, Opening Night 04.19.2015

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE  | The Samuel J Friedman Theater,  Opening Night 09.29.2012

SEMINAR | The Golden Theater, Opening Night 11.20.2011

OFF BROADWAY

New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage Theatre, Signature Theater, MCC Theater, Roundabout Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater,  The Vineyard Theatre, The Atlantic Theater Co., The Delacorte Theater, The Play Company, ArsNova, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kitchen Performance Space, Edge Theater Co., New World Stages, The Daryl Roth Theater, The Classical Theater of Harlem, The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Soho Rep, The Cherry Lane Theater, Minetta Lane Theater, Barrow Street Theater.

REGIONAL THEATER

The Ahmanson theater (CA), The Mark Taper Forum (CA), The Kirk Douglas Theater (CA), The Old Globe (CA), La Jolla Playhouse (CA), The Geffen Playhouse (CA), Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), South Coast Rep.(CA), The Goodman Theatre (Chicago),  The Paper Mill Playhouse (NJ), The Huntington Theater (MA), The Intiman Theater (Seattle), The 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.

INTERNATIONAL

The Young Vic (London), Barbican (London), Royal Festival Hall (London), Royal Albert Hall (London), O2 Apollo (Manchester, UK), The Sage (Gateshead, UK), Colston Hall (Bristol UK), Sydney Opera House, Olympia Theater (Dublin), Galway Arts Festival (Ireland), Paradiso (Amsterdam), De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam), Salle Pleyel (Paris), Muziekgebouw Frits Philips (Eindhoven, the Netherlands),  Primavera Sound (Barcelona), Vega (Copenhagen), Cirkus (Stockholm), Caesarea Amphitheater (Israel), Grieghallen (Bergen, Norway)

OPERA & DANCE

ATE9 Dance Company, Doug Varone & Dancers, Gerald Casel Dance, The New Jersey Ballet, The Opera Company of Brooklyn, The Des Moines Metro Opera, The Connecticut Grand Opera

CONCERTS & TOURS

IRON & WINE
• Light Verse | Lighting Design, in collaboration with Sam Beam and Manual Cinema, Summer/Fall 2024

REGINA SPEKTOR
• Home, Before and After | Lighting Design, 2023 Solo World Tour & Late Night w/ Stephen Colbert
• Live On Broadway | Lighting & Video Design, The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Summer 2019
• Remember Us To Life | Production & Lighting Design, 2016/2017 world tour
• What We Saw From The Cheap Seats | Production & Design, 2012/2013 world tour

SUFJAN STEVENS
• Planetarium | featuring Bryce Dessner & Nico Muhly, Lighting Design, 2012 & 2013 Sydney Opera House; Disney Concert Hall, LA; BAM Opera House
• Surfjohn Stevens Christmas Sing-a-long | Lighting Design, 2012 US Tour
• Age Of Adz | Lighting Design, 2011 European Tour & Celebrate Brooklyn Concerts

THE NATIONAL
• I Am Easy To Find | Lighting Design, 2019 Album Release Concerts in Philadelphia & NYC & Late Night w/ Stephen Colbert
• Sleep Well Beast | Lighting Design, 2017 Album Release Concerts in Philadelphia & NYC
• Trouble Will Find Me | Touring LD, 2014 Summer European & Us Tour

BEIRUT
• The Rip Tide | Production Design, 2011 American Tour

ST. VINCENT
• Strange Mercy | Lighting Design 2011 European & Us Tour

BRYCE DESSNER
• Black Mountain Songs | featuring Richard Reed Parry, Lighting Design, The Harvey Theater, BAM 2014, &  The Barbican, London 2015

BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS
• Road Trip | Lighting Design, 2017 Ford Theater LA & The Gilman Opera House, BAM

OTHER LIVES
• Reconfiguration | Lighting Design, 2015 The Gilman Opera House, BAM

MELANIE MARTINEZ
• Dollhouse | Lighting & Scenic Design, 2015 Bowery Ballroom Concerts

DAVID BYRNE
• Look Into The Eyeball | Lighting Design 2001 Bowery Ballroom concerts