 I Know What You've Done |  A Cold War - Short Story |  Carl Duncan 2020 - Play |  Halle - Screenplay |
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A B O U T M E
Ben is a speechwriter, screenwriter, filmmaker and playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the current speechwriter for The Center for American Progress and previously was the speechwriter for New Jersey Attorney General, Gurbir Grewal.
He received a Grand Prize at the Rhode Island International Film Festival for Best Screenplay. In 2018, he wrote, produced and acted in REVELATIONS at the New York Winterfest, a play exploring the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Jehovah's Witnesses.
He has since written and produced SHORT SELL, a play about the pharmaceutical industry, and CARL DUNCAN 2020, a play that explores the unravelling of a presidential candidate in the lead up to his campaign.
Ben also worked at Moxie Pictures as Director of TV Development. He has previously been involved in DINA (Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner 2017) and Arranged (FYI). Moxie also released WORMWOOD (Errol Morris, NETFLIX).
Beyond all things artsy, he continues to ply his trade in his other true passion - cricket - in the hopes that one day the England Cricket Team's latest rollicking might give him a fighting chance for stardom (one can hope, right?)
UPCOMING PROJECTS
T H E A T L A S OF I N T E R M I N A B L E P L A C E S
A N D L I M I N A L L A N D S
Short Story Anthology
THE ATLAS OF INTERMINABLE PLACES AND LIMINAL LANDS is an upcoming, expansive series of short stories in collaboration with Sam Hatt, exploring the relationship between people at borders at different periods in time.
D R I N K I N M O D E R A T I O N
Feature-length Play
DRINK IN MODERATION explores the underbelly of social media content moderation for the world's biggest social media platforms. It charts the story of Leo, a recent grad, as he navigates the moral quagmire of moderating what does and does not get published on the those sites.