Biography

Ben Lorenz has performed all over NYC, from a Greenpoint rectory to a wooden spaceship. Favorites include: Three Tall Women (Broadway: Joe Mantello), premieres of A.R. Gurney's Ajax (NYT Critics' Pick) and Sarah Gancher’s The Place We Built (The Flea: Danya Taymor), Bittergreens (59E59), Breeders (Dixon Place), 1969: The Second Man (Ars Nova). He’s also played Katurian in The Pillowman, Graham in Cleansed, and Marty (and later Anthony) in House of Yes. On screen, he's gone from cowboy to astronaut and from mobster to magician, with major guest star roles on Chicago Med and FBI. As a writer, he’s penned four features and two award-winning short films. Cotton Fever, a feature he co-produced for creative collaborator Daniel Blake Schwartz, was awarded Best Narrative Feature at Tribeca this summer. Ben grew up in Oregon, studied literature and environmental science at Harvard, trained at Atlantic, and spent a year teaching Shakespeare to the Brits at Eton. He also writes poems.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ben Lorenz