Ben Rosenblatt

Ben Rosenblatt is an actor, writer, musician and radio host based in NYC. Acting credits include: The Public Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkshire Theatre Festival, City Theatre, Round House, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Cape May Stage, among others. He was in the 2016 Drama Desk nominated Off-Broadway production of Death of a Salesman and toured internationally with the play, ReEntry.
He is co-host of the popular radio show, Love Bites, on Heritage Radio Network and lead singer/songwriter of the rock band, No Denial.
Ben is an Associate Artist of American Records, a theatre company devoted to building bridges between people, with whom he has gotten his start as a documentary playmaker.

Ben Rosenblatt is an actor, writer, musician and radio host based in NYC. Acting credits include: The Public Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkshire Theatre Festival, City Theatre, Round House, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Cape May Stage, among others. He was in the 2016 Drama Desk nominated Off-Broadway production of Death of a Salesman and toured internationally with the play, ReEntry.
He is co-host of the popular radio show, Love Bites, on Heritage Radio Network and lead singer/songwriter of the rock band, No Denial.
Ben is an Associate Artist of American Records, a theatre company devoted to building bridges between people, with whom he has gotten his start as a documentary playmaker.

Scripts

Hiccups

by Ben Rosenblatt

16
Cast Size
1
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
docudrama/historic,
drama

In this solo play, one actor plays five roles. Hiccups is a part documentary/part autobiographical nosedive into life with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which was culled from hours of interviews, memory, real life experiences and imagination. Irreverent, funny and poignant, the play deeply enters the lives of four sufferers, confronting myths and misconceptions of OCD, while bringing the audience face-to-face...

In this solo play, one actor plays five roles. Hiccups is a part documentary/part autobiographical nosedive into life with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which was culled from hours of interviews, memory, real life experiences and imagination. Irreverent, funny and poignant, the play deeply enters the lives of four sufferers, confronting myths and misconceptions of OCD, while bringing the audience face-to-face with their own deepest fears and obsessive tendencies, in unique, interactive ways.

"I hope that I will eventually be able to experience a full production of HICCUPS, with audio and visual effects and a theater full of resonant viewers — viewers who will assure you (of this, if nothing else) that OCD is the psychological epidemic of our age. HICCUPS contains the best of what theater can offer — a story of Everyman/woman, told in the voices of very specific men and women." -Barbara Hort (Licensed Psychologist and Theatre Professional)

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Split

by Ben Rosenblatt

Cast Size
1
Genre
dark comedy,
docudrama/historic,
drama

IN DEVELOPMENT: In this play one actor plays all four members of a nuclear family separated by divorce. Split - ripped verbatim from interviews the playwright conducted with his own father, mother and brother - depicts four people, who lived in the same home and went through the same traumatic event, but remember reality in wildly different ways. As they each recount their memories and share the still-lasting...

IN DEVELOPMENT: In this play one actor plays all four members of a nuclear family separated by divorce. Split - ripped verbatim from interviews the playwright conducted with his own father, mother and brother - depicts four people, who lived in the same home and went through the same traumatic event, but remember reality in wildly different ways. As they each recount their memories and share the still-lasting effects of the seminal moment in their family history, we learn that parents and children alike may never fully comprehend the profound and sometimes surprising ramifications divorce had on each other, both in the moment and in the everlasting aftermath.

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Reunion

by Ben Rosenblatt

5
Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

TEN MINUTE PLAY: Three years after their mother’s death, a sibling relationship begins to boil over the brim. Would mom approve of the way they’re behaving?

TEN MINUTE PLAY: Three years after their mother’s death, a sibling relationship begins to boil over the brim. Would mom approve of the way they’re behaving?

We Were Such Idiots

by Ben Rosenblatt

7
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy

SHORT PLAY: Two bros, friends since childhood, navigate their way through a needed conversation.

SHORT PLAY: Two bros, friends since childhood, navigate their way through a needed conversation.

Protectors

by Ben Rosenblatt

5
Cast Size
4—5
Genre
drama

SHORT PLAY: When two brothers accidentally stumble upon a devastating secret, each does his best to protect the rest of the family from the painful truth.

SHORT PLAY: When two brothers accidentally stumble upon a devastating secret, each does his best to protect the rest of the family from the painful truth.