Ben Scranton is a Massachusetts-based playwright and actor. His plays have been performed live and virtually across the country and in Canada.
2024:
Production: The Back-Porch Gang (full-length version) has been selected by The ACT Theatre Company in Topeka, KS for their 2024 season. Performance dates August 9-18.
Reading: The Back-Porch Gang (full-length version). Bing Productions. January 27. Springfield, MA.
Finalist: The Back-Porch Gang (10 min version). A finalist in the 2024 TENS Play Festival at Parish Players Theater in Thetford, VT.
2023:
NY Production: The End of Society. Fully-staged. New Ambassadors Theater Company's Blurring Boundaries Festival held at The Hudson Guild Theater in NYC. Critically acclaimed in a NY review.
Reading: The Back-Porch Gang (10 min...
Ben Scranton is a Massachusetts-based playwright and actor. His plays have been performed live and virtually across the country and in Canada.
2024:
Production: The Back-Porch Gang (full-length version) has been selected by The ACT Theatre Company in Topeka, KS for their 2024 season. Performance dates August 9-18.
Reading: The Back-Porch Gang (full-length version). Bing Productions. January 27. Springfield, MA.
Finalist: The Back-Porch Gang (10 min version). A finalist in the 2024 TENS Play Festival at Parish Players Theater in Thetford, VT.
2023:
NY Production: The End of Society. Fully-staged. New Ambassadors Theater Company's Blurring Boundaries Festival held at The Hudson Guild Theater in NYC. Critically acclaimed in a NY review.
Reading: The Back-Porch Gang (10 min version). Staged-InTent reading series. Gracewell Productions. Ivoryton Playhouse (CT).
Production: The Warehouse at the End of the World. Fully-staged. 7th Annual Orange County Play Fest, Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Chester, NY.
Staged Reading: The Head of Seamus Delaney named first place winner in Clan na Gael's One-Act Playwriting Contest. It received a staged reading in Fairfield CT.
2022:
The Overtime Theater (San Antonio). The Back-Porch Gang. Fully-staged.
50th Playwrights’ Platform Festival of Short Plays (Boston). The Head of Shamus Delaney. Staged reading.
Crafton Hills College Festival of New Works (Yucaipa, CA). Blessings, Fully-staged.
Gi60 The International One Minute Theater Festival (Houston). Unplanned. Fully-staged.
The Open Eye Theater (Margaretville, NY). The Back-Porch Gang (10 min version) Fully staged.
Newmarket Int'l Festival of One-Act Plays (Ontario). The Back-Porch Gang (10 min version). Fully staged
Other productions:
The Pittsburgh New Works Festival (PA)
Equity Library Theater Summer Virtual Play Festival (NY)
The Drama Studio (Springfield, MA)
International Festival of Arts and Ideas (New Haven, CT)
Westfield State University (MA)
Nantucket Short Play Festival (MA).
Readings:
Tiny Theater on Facebook (AL)
Just Write Lakeland (FL)
The Depot for New Play Readings (CT)
Play Incubation Collective (MA)
Play Zoomers (MA)
Published:
Stonecoast Review Literary Arts Journal
Fresh Words Literary magazine.
Honors:
Dramatic writing fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council
Two-time recipient of the Robert R. Lehan Playwriting Award, Westfield State University (MA)
Finalist for the 2020 James Stevenson Prize of Short Comedic Plays. A national competition,
Actor:
Ben has worked as a professional actor and singer appearing on the national tour of the Broadway musical Annie and in regional theater. For seven seasons he was a member of the resident acting company at StageWest in Springfield, MA appearing in 17 productions. He has appeared at Hartford Stage (CT), ArtPark in Lewiston, NY, and Theater by the Sea in Portsmouth New Hampshire, among others. With his wife, singer/actress Lorrie Armstrong Scranton, they have toured and presented a concert of Tin Pan Alley songs and stories.
Other:
Ben had a successful 32-year career in Realtor® Association management, including 10 years as CEO for the Realtor® Association of Pioneer Valley in Springfield, MA.
Membership:
The Dramatists Guild of America
Actors’ Equity Association
The Screen Actors Guild
The Playwrights Platform where he serves on their Board of Directors.