Ben Jackson
Ben started performing stand up comedy at school and slam poetry while studying Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. And hasn't stopped.
Ben has performed at Ilkley Literature Festival, Funkenteleky (Birmingham), Hit the Ode (Birmingham), The Catweazle Club (Oxford), The Sunday Practise (Leeds), Boom Festival (Portugal), Kadiköy Comedy Club (Istanbul).
Ben's poetry has been published in Rockland and The Anti-Languorous Project.
In 2013, Insanity is Repeating, a short play written by Ben and Adam Worsley won Duck Down Theatre's Script Sessions competion in London.
From 2014 to 2017, Ben was a core member of Forest Sounds Theatre, based in Sheffield, resident artists of Theatre Delicatessen. He wrote, directed and produced several pieces in collaboration with Andy Owen Cook, Alfie Heffer and Heather Morgan.
Forest Sounds produced a range of imaginiative and unusual theatre, including installations such as The Poetry Call Box and The Alternative Election, immersive horror (Did You Call the Police?) and durational (The Rojava Project) as well as an hour long play, The Church of Jim, described by State of the arts as going "from terrifying and bizarre to beautiful and hypnotic". The Church of Jim had a three-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017.
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