Qualifications and Experience    

BA Professional Acting - Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

MA Creative Writing  (Specialising in Dramatic Form) - Teesside University. 

ALAM (Hons) - London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

FRSA - Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Former Associate Research Fellow, Module Leader and Lecturer - University of Worcester

Former Director of Youth Theatre - Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Former Artistic Director of Youth Theatre - The Swan Theatre, Worcester

Former Artistic Director of the Worcester Repertory Company and Swan Theatre. 

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Full Member of Equity

Full Member of UKTheatre

Full Member of The Society for Theatre Research

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Ben is currently the Senior Creative Consultant for the National Trust of Scotland, Artistic Director of Tortive Theatre and a Strategy Consultant and Funding Assessor for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

 

PhD Candidate at the University of York.

 

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Future Adjudications    

 

2025

Guernsey Eisteddfod, Guernsey 

FEATS Festival, Hamburg​​

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Recent Adjudications    

2024

Ballymoney Theatre Festival, Northern Ireland

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2023

Caithness District Finals, SCDA

FEATS Festival, Frankfurt

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2022

Caithness District Open and Youth Festival

Edinburgh One Act Play Festival

Mid-Somerset Festival, Bath

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2021

Guernsey Eisteddfod, Guernsey (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

Perthshire One-Act Play Festival (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

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2020

RAFTA Theatre Festival (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

Lighthorne Theatre Festival, Warwickshire (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

FEATS Festival - The Hague, Netherlands (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

Sedgefield One Act Play Festival

Edinburgh One-Act Play Festival.

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2019

Ballymoney Theatre Festival, Northern Ireland

Mid-Somerset Festival, Bath

AETF Central Semi Final, Burton-upon-Trent

Guernsey One-Act Play Festival

SCDA Youth Final, Scotland

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2018

Bath Young Actor of the Year Award, Bath

FEATS Festival, Antwerp

AETF English Final, Stoke-on-Trent

Gibraltar Theatre Festival

Georgian Theatre Royal Festival, Richmond

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2017

Guernsey One Act Play Festival

Georgian Theatre Royal Festival, Richmond