Lighting Designer

Ben
Stanton

(he/him)

Ben is a lighting designer for theater, concerts, dance, installations, and events. He is a five-time Tony Award nominee as well as an Obie, Lucille Lortel, Henry Hewes Design, IRNE, and Ovation Award winner. Ben’s work is currently represented on Broadway in the Tony Award–winning musical Maybe Happy Ending; in London in Good Night, Oscar starring Sean Hayes; and on the North American tour of the musical The Notebook. Recent Broadway credits include The Notebook; Mary Jane; Days of Wine and Roses; Good Night, Oscar; The Collaboration; A Christmas Carol; The Rose Tattoo; Derren Brown: Secret; Regina Spektor: Live at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater; Junk; Six Degrees of Separation; Deaf West Theater’s Spring Awakening; Fully Committed; and Fun Home (Broadway, Off-Broadway, 1st National Tour, London). Ben is an assistant professor at Brooklyn College where he teaches lighting design and programming, and lives in Brooklyn with his partner, the projection designer Lucy Mackinnon, and their two children.