Benjamin Walton is a Georgia-born purveyor of noise based in New York City. He believes storytelling is meant to create community and he chooses to do that through the intentional presence or absence of sound. He writes music and plays, performs, and teaches. His one-act play ‘Playground’ was a Region 1 finalist and national semifinalist for the John Cauble Outstanding Short Play Award through the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. His mini-musical ‘Dive In’, written with Timothy Thomas Leech, had a developmental production at the University of Central Florida this April through Project Spotlight. His fifteen-minute opera, ‘the hands that planted’, with librettist Zoe Ray Prawda, was presented at NYU and the Hudson Guild in mid-May in collaboration with the American Opera...
Benjamin Walton is a Georgia-born purveyor of noise based in New York City. He believes storytelling is meant to create community and he chooses to do that through the intentional presence or absence of sound. He writes music and plays, performs, and teaches. His one-act play ‘Playground’ was a Region 1 finalist and national semifinalist for the John Cauble Outstanding Short Play Award through the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. His mini-musical ‘Dive In’, written with Timothy Thomas Leech, had a developmental production at the University of Central Florida this April through Project Spotlight. His fifteen-minute opera, ‘the hands that planted’, with librettist Zoe Ray Prawda, was presented at NYU and the Hudson Guild in mid-May in collaboration with the American Opera Project and NYU’s Opera Lab. He has his BFA in Musical Theatre Performance with minors in Creative Writing and Music from the University of Central Florida and his MFA from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (Cycle 33).