Ben Stanton is a lighting designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Over the last decade he has contributed lighting designs for Theater and Dance pieces, Operas, Concerts, Performance Art, & Installations. He has been profiled in American Theater Magazine, Lighting and Sound America, Stage Directions Magazine, and the Rosco International website. He has guest lectured or been a designer in residence at Harvard University, The University of Massachusetts, UNC Charlotte, & Duke University. He is on the faculty at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School at New York University, and is proud to be a New York Theater Workshop "Usual Suspect". Ben’s work has been seen in most major cites in the United States and internationally in Canada and Europe. In 2006 Ben created Stanton Collaborative, a lighting design firm focused on bringing a progressive visual aesthetic to non-theater markets. Located in the heart of Williamsburg, Stanton Collaborative thrives in one of the most invigorating Arts, Fashion, and Music scenes in New York. For more information about this project visit www.stantoncollaborative.com

Upcoming Theater Productions:
In 2010 Ben will be designing new plays by Adam Rapp, Kia Corthron, Amy Herzog, Elizabeth Meriwether, Najla Said, Michi Barall, a new musical by Douglas Carter Beane & Lewis Flinn and the NYC revival of ANGELS IN AMERICA Parts 1 & 2 at the Signature Theater.

Career Highlights:
CORALINE (MCC & True Love Productions), WHY TORTURE IS WRONG AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM (The Public), TRUE WEST (Williamstown Theater Festival), ASTROLAND (The Kitchen), SAVE THE ROBOTS (GERALDCASELDANCE @ Dance New Amsterdam), THE POOR ITCH (The Public LAB), DIE MOMMIE DIE (New World Stages), THREE CHANGES, ESSENTIAL SELF-DEFENCE, A FEMININE ENDING (Playwrights Horizons), WALMARTOPIA, & SPALDING GRAY: STORIES LEFT TO TELL (Minetta Lane), GODSPELL (Paper Mill Playhouse), SANDRA BERNHARD: EVERYTHING BAD & BEAUTIFUL (Daryl Roth), THE COOK (Hartford Stage), LIGHT RAISE THE ROOF (NYTW), STONE COLD DEAD SERIOUS (Edge) & FINER NOBLE GASES (Rattlestick), ORANGE FLOWER WATER (Edge), CALIGULA with Andrea DeShields (Classical Theater of Harlem), PLAY YOURSELF (Century Center), DAVID BYRNE at The Bowery Ballroom. 

Credits:
New York: New York Theater Workshop, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, Second Stage Theater, MCC Theater, Edge Theater Co., Minetta Lane Theater, The Play Company, The Kitchen Performance Space, The Century Center Theater, New World Stages, The StageFARM, The Daryl Roth Theater, The Classical Theater of Harlem, The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Soho Rep, The New York Muscial Theater Festival, & The Drama Theater at Juilliard.

Regional: The Old Globe (CA), La Jolla Playhouse (CA), South Coast Rep. (CA), The Paper Mill Playhouse (NJ), The Huntington Theater (MA), The Intiman Theater (Seattle), 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 Theater Festival.

Opera & Dance: GERALDCASELDANCE @ Dance New Amsterdam, The New Jersey Ballet, The Opera Company of Brooklyn, The Des Moines Metro Opera, The Connecticut Grand Opera.

Live Concert: SANDRA BERNHARD at the Daryl Roth Theater, NYC; ASTROLAND with LESS THE BAND at The Kitchen, NYC, BOWFIRE at Center in the Square, Kitchener, ON; PATTI LABELLE at the Broadmoor Resort, Colorado Springs, THE PIERCES at The Box & The Gramercy Theater, NYC; DAVID BYRNE at the Bowery Ballroom, NYC. 

Broadway:
Associate Lighting Designer: THE FROGS, John Leguizamo’s SEXAHOLIX
Assistant Lighting Designer: WICKED, A CLASS ACT, HEDDA GABLER, THE SMELL OF THE KILL, & AN ALMOST HOLY PICTURE.

Ben was the Associate Lighting Supervisor at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1999 & 2000. Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Educated at the University of Massachusetts in Music (percussion) & Theater.