Benjamin Stanton Email & Phone Number

Ben is a lighting designer for theater, concerts, dance, installations, and events. He is a three-time TONY Award nominee as well as an Obie, Lortel, IRNE, and Ovation Award winner. Recent Broadway credits include THE ROSE TATTOO (starring Marisa Tomei); DERREN BROWN: SECRET (Cort 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 (Brooks Atkinson 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 the resident lighting director for Skylight Modern, 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.

Listed skills include Stage, Lightwright, Lighting Design, Lighting, and 4 others.

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  University Of Massachusetts Amherst

  Theater/Music