Ben Weber (b. 1985) is a performer, educator, and community-based artist living and working in New York City.
Ben grew up in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, where he played an active role in the Milwaukee theater community, performing with First Stage Children’s Theater, The Milwaukee Chamber Theater, Bialystock and Bloom and Milwaukee Shakespeare.
He participated in most productions at Whitefish Bay High School and founded the WFBHS Comedy Sportz High School League.
He attended New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where he developed his own concentration, “Theatricality and Taboo,” examining how linguistic/conceptual schemas shape our experience of the forbidden, both on stage and in society.
An avid improviser, Ben performed with NYU’s Dangerbox Improv and studied at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater. Along with Meg Griffiths, Ben curates and hosts Comedy Night at BAMcafé Live, Brooklyn Academy of Music’s first and only stand-up comedy show. You can also see him as the emcee of BAMboo, BAM’s annual Halloween celebration.
Ben is pursing an MA in Applied Theatre at CUNY’s School for Professional Studies. He is developing SMASH TYPE, a collaborative artmaking project that invites participants to form a living typewriter, stamping text onto surfaces of a performance space.
In collaboration with Todd Shalom, Ben develops educational programming for Elastic City, an arts organization that commissions artists to create sensory, poetic walks throughout New York City. He is currently a teaching artist at the Children’s Museum of the Arts.