Ben is a performer, music director, orchestrator and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. He was most recently the music director, co-orchestrator, and a cast member of Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things at Ars Nova, directed by Lee Sunday Evans, for which he received an Obie Award Special Citation and a Lucille Lortel Award.

Broadway conducting credits include Head Over Heels, Amélie, and Deaf West’s Spring Awakening. Additional credits include AZUL (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), Heather Christian’s Prime (Playwrights’ Horizons “Soundstage”), The Hello Girls (Prospect Theater Company), 2 Pianos 4 Hands (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Alexandra Silber’s After Anatevka (Audible), Striking 12 (Prospect), The Mad Ones (Prospect), Brooklynite (Vineyard Theater), Chasing The Song (La Jolla Playhouse), America is Hard to See (Edinburgh Fringe), Arlington (Vineyard), Spring Awakening (1st National Tour), and the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. He was a regular performer and music director of The Bongo Hour hosted by Peter Smith and Sandy Honig at The Slipper Room in NYC and Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles. He is the music director of the Broadway Sings concert series, and the composer of the new musical Don’t Call Me John!

He is represented by Katie Gamelli at Paladin Artists.

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