Ben Stanton

Personal Information
Ben Stanton is a Tony nominated lighting designer with more than a hundred theater credits on Broadway, off-Broadway, and across the US and Europe. Recent Broadway credits include Fun Home, Fully Committed, and Deaf West Theater’s Spring Awakening. Recent Off-Broadway work includes Dot (Vineyard), Marjorie Prime, The Christians (Playwrights), The Nether, The Legend of Georgia McBride (MCC), I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard (Atlantic). In 2011 he received the Lucille Lortel Award for his work on The Whipping Man, and in 2015 he was honored with an OBIE Award for Sustained excellence in Lighting Design.
 
Credits

Designer
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 Table 17 MCC Theater 07/14/2024 Lighting Designer
2 Days of Wine and Roses Linda Gross Theater 06/05/2023 Lighting Designer
3 Unknown Soldier Playwrights Horizons 03/08/2020 Lighting Designer
4 Make Believe Second Stage Theatre 08/15/2019 Lighting Designer
5 Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/ Susan and Ronald Frankel Theater 07/18/2019 Lighting Designer
6 The Pain of My Belligerence Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater 04/22/2019 Lighting Designer
7 The Mother Linda Gross Theater 03/11/2019 Lighting Designer
8 The Light The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space/ Susan and Ronald Frankel Theater 02/10/2019 Lighting Designer
9 India Pale Ale New York City Center/ Stage I 10/23/2018 Lighting Designer
10 This Ain't No Disco Linda Gross Theater 07/24/2018 Lighting Designer
11 The Beast in the Jungle Vineyard Theatre 05/23/2018 Lighting Designer
12 The Low Road Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 03/07/2018 Lighting Designer
13 Fiasco Theater's Twelfth Night, or What You Will East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 12/14/2017 Lighting Designer
14 Charm Lucille Lortel Theatre 09/19/2017 Lighting Designer
15 Napoli, Brooklyn Laura Pels Theatre (Current) 06/27/2017 Lighting Designer
16 The End of Longing Lucille Lortel Theatre 06/05/2017 Lighting Designer
17 Derren Brown: Secret Linda Gross Theater 05/16/2017 Lighting Designer
18 The Outer Space Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Joe's Pub 03/08/2017 Lighting Designer
19 Yen Lucille Lortel Theatre 01/31/2017 Lighting Designer
20 Incognito New York City Center/ Stage I 05/24/2016 Lighting Designer
21 Dot Vineyard Theatre 02/21/2016 Lighting Designer
22 Marjorie Prime Playwrights Horizons 12/14/2015 Lighting Designer
23 Kill Floor Claire Tow Theater 10/19/2015 Lighting Designer
24 The Christians Playwrights Horizons 09/17/2015 Lighting Designer
25 The Legend of Georgia McBride Lucille Lortel Theatre 09/09/2015 Lighting Designer
26 The Nether Lucille Lortel Theatre 02/24/2015 Lighting Designer
27 Our Lady of Kibeho Pershing Square Signature Center/ Irene Diamond Stage 11/16/2014 Lighting Designer
28 Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story Pershing Square Signature Center/ Irene Diamond Stage 07/21/2014 Lighting Designer
29 The Lion New York City Center/ Stage II 06/26/2014 Lighting Designer
30 Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater 04/21/2014 Lighting Designer
31 Kung Fu Pershing Square Signature Center/ Irene Diamond Stage 02/24/2014 Lighting Designer
32 Fun Home Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 10/22/2013 Lighting Designer
33 Nobody Loves You Second Stage Theatre 07/18/2013 Lighting Designer
34 Reasons To Be Happy Lucille Lortel Theatre 06/11/2013 Lighting Designer
35 Murder Ballad Union Square Theatre 05/22/2013 Lighting Designer
36 Belleville New York Theatre Workshop 03/03/2013 Lighting Designer
37 Murder Ballad New York City Center/ Stage II 11/15/2012 Lighting Designer
38 Fun Home Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater 10/17/2012 Lighting Designer
39 Into the Woods Delacorte Theater 08/09/2012 Lighting Designer
40 Title and Deed Pershing Square Signature Center/ The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre 05/20/2012 Lighting Designer
41 Regrets New York City Center/ Stage I 03/27/2012 Lighting Designer
42 No Place To Go Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Joe's Pub 03/21/2012 Lighting Designer
43 Assistance Playwrights Horizons 02/28/2012 Lighting Designer
44 CQ/CX Peter Norton Space 02/15/2012 Lighting Designer
45 Outside People Vineyard Theatre 01/10/2012 Lighting Designer
46 Asuncion Cherry Lane Theatre 10/27/2011 Lighting Designer
47 We Live Here New York City Center/ Stage I 10/12/2011 Lighting Designer
48 A Perfect Future Cherry Lane Theatre 02/17/2011 Lighting Designer
49 The Whipping Man New York City Center/ Stage I 02/01/2011 Lighting Designer
50 The Coward The Duke on 42nd Street 11/22/2010 Lighting Designer
51 After the Revolution Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater 11/10/2010 Lighting Designer
52 Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part 1: Millennium Approaches Peter Norton Space 10/28/2010 Lighting Designer
53 Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part 2: Perestroika Peter Norton Space 10/28/2010 Lighting Designer
54 Bachelorette McGinn-Cazale Theatre 07/21/2010 Lighting Designer
55 The Metal Children Vineyard Theatre 05/19/2010 Lighting Designer
56 Oliver Parker! Cherry Lane Theatre 05/17/2010 Lighting Designer
57 A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater 03/28/2010 Lighting Designer
58 Coraline Lucille Lortel Theatre 06/01/2009 Lighting Designer
59 Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 04/06/2009 Lighting Designer
60 Humor Abuse New York City Center/ Stage II 03/10/2009 Lighting Designer
61 Three Changes Playwrights Horizons 09/16/2008 Lighting Designer
62 Hunting and Gathering 59E59 Theaters/ Theater A 02/03/2008 Lighting Designer
63 Die Mommie Die! New World Stages/ Stage I 10/21/2007 Lighting Designer
64 A Feminine Ending Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater 10/17/2007 Lighting Designer
65 Walmartopia Minetta Lane Theatre 09/03/2007 Lighting Designer
66 In a Dark Dark House Lucille Lortel Theatre 06/07/2007 Lighting Designer
67 Essential Self-Defense Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater 03/28/2007 Lighting Designer
68 Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell Minetta Lane Theatre 03/06/2007 Lighting Designer
69 Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad and Beautiful Daryl Roth Theatre 04/05/2006 Lighting Designer
70 Joy Actors' Playhouse 08/14/2005 Lighting Designer
71 The Dear Boy McGinn-Cazale Theatre 08/08/2005 Lighting Designer
72 Caligula HSA Theatre 04/01/2005 Lighting Designer
73 Bexley (OH!) or Two Tales of One City New York Theatre Workshop 03/10/2003 Lighting Designer
74 Play Yourself Century Center For The Performing Arts 07/10/2002 Lighting Designer
75 I Sing Maverick Theatre 06/14/2001 Lighting Designer
Awards
Award Production Function
1 NOMINATED 2019 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design The Mother Lighting Designer
2 NOMINATED 2018 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design The Low Road Lighting Designer
3 NOMINATED 2018 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design The Low Road Lighting Designer
4 NOMINATED 2017 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design Yen Lighting Designer
5 NOMINATED 2016 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design The Legend of Georgia McBride Lighting Designer
6 NOMINATED 2016 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design Marjorie Prime Lighting Designer
7 NOMINATED 2015 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design The Nether Lighting Designer
8 NOMINATED 2015 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Lighting Design Our Lady of Kibeho Lighting Designer
9 WON 2015 Obie Award, Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design    
10 NOMINATED 2014 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design Fun Home Lighting Designer
11 NOMINATED 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design Murder Ballad Lighting Designer
12 NOMINATED 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design Belleville Lighting Designer
13 NOMINATED 2013 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design Murder Ballad Lighting Designer
14 WON 2011 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lighting Design The Whipping Man Lighting Designer
15 NOMINATED 2011 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Lighting Design The Whipping Man Lighting Designer
16 NOMINATED 2011 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part 1: Millennium Approaches Lighting Designer
17 NOMINATED 2011 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design The Coward Lighting Designer
18 NOMINATED 2011 Hewes Design Award, Lighting Design The Whipping Man Lighting Designer
19 NOMINATED 2010 AUDELCO Award, Lighting Design A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick Lighting Designer