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BEN STANTON LIGHTING DESIGNER

Ben Stanton is an internationally-recognized lighting designer based in Brooklyn, . He has been nominated for four Henry Hewes Design Awards, a , and two Lortel Awards. In 2011, he won the Lortel Award for Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man, produced by Manhattan Theater Club.

After a decade and a half, Ben's body of work is uniquely diverse: Broadway and off-broadway plays and musicals, concerts for recording artists like Regina Spektor and Sufjan Stevens, high profile opera, dance, installations & events are all part of a portfolio built on Ben's hard work and progressive aesthetic. In 2006 he founded the design group 'Stanton Collaborative' to team up with other talented designers and technicians to better serve these diverse markets.

Ben’s work has been profiled in American Theater Magazine, Lighting & Sound America, and Stage Directions. He has served on the faculty at NYU’s Theater School and taught master classes at Harvard University, California Institute of the Arts, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Ben has an undergraduate degree from UMass Amherst where he studied theater and music.

Broadway: An Enemy Of The People by , Directed by Doug Hughes, The Friedman Theater, Opening Night: September 29, 2012 Seminar by Theresa Rebeck, Directed by , The Golden Theater, Opening Night: November 20, 2011

Off Broadway: New York Theater Workshop, , Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, Second Stage Theatre, 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, , 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 Ahmanson theater (CA), The (CA), The Kirk Douglas Theater (CA), The Old Globe (CA), La Jolla Playhouse (CA), Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), South Coast Rep.(CA), The Goodman Theatre (Chicago), The (NJ), The Huntington Theater (MA), The Intiman Theater (Seattle), The Long Wharf Theater (CT), 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: Planetarium, Song cycle composed by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, & Nico Muhly. Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC 2013, Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles 2013, Sydney Opera House, Eindhoven, Amsterdam, London, Paris 2012 Regina Spektor: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats World Tour 2012 – 2013 – Scenic and Lighting design Regina Spektor: Live at Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 2012 Sufjan Stevens: The Surfjohn Stevens Christmas Sing-A-Long Seasonal Affective Disorder Yuletide Disaster Pageant On Ice, 2012 Sufjan Stevens: Age Of Adz European Tour, Summer 2011 Beirut: The Rip Tide America Tour 2011 St. Vincent: Strange Mercy American Tour 2011 The Pierces: The Box, The Gramercy Theater, NYC, 2009 Less The Band: Astroland, The Kitchen, NYC, 2008 Bowfire Tour and live DVD taping at Center in the Square, Kitchener, ON, 2007 Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad & Beautiful, Daryl Roth Theater, NYC, 2006 : Bowery Ballroom, NYC, 2004