About Me
Ben M. Jones (He/Him/His) was born in London, UK. His family moved to the suburbs outside Portland, Oregon when he was 4 years old, and he went to undergrad at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where he studied Theatre Arts and Journalism. Now he is a New York City based theatre maker. His plays have been produced and/or had readings from: National Queer Theater, The New Cosmopolitans, Sandcastle Theater Company, The Village Playwrights, and The New Short Play Festival. Plays include: All The Sex I Want, The Asexual Romance Fantasy Play, Art to Art, and Individual. He is also the author of the travel/photo book, #BenAndHannahGoToEurope.
Ben’s work as a theater maker primarily focuses on the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, how we live our lives, and what we value—as opposed to who we really are, how we really live our lives, and what we really value. The ways storytelling, in all its various forms, distorts our understanding of reality about things as complex as our society or as close to home as ourselves is a primary point of fascination for Ben, and it crops up in almost all of his plays.
When he isn’t writing plays, Ben is hungry to do just about any other job in the theater. He’s a house manager, he’s been an actor, stage manager, award-wining assistant stage manager, he’s designed and built sets, been a sound designer, he’s hung lights, and run cable; to quote an old mentor, “Generally speaking, if someone shows me a pie I stick my finger in it.”
About the logo:
The blue, green, and pink circular logo you will find scattered throughout my resumes and plays dates back to when I was a teenager. It was a simple design that has stuck with me for all these years because, while simple, I like what it says about me. It is meant to be representation of my world view; the green is the land on which we live, blue is the water that is necessary for life, and the pink, at the center of it all, for the love that makes life worth it.
See, it sounds like something that a teenager would come up with. But I still find it sort of sweet. So I’m sticking with it.