Ben Standish is a director, dramaturg and facilitator based in Glasgow.
Originally studying French and Chinese in Nottingham, he subsequently worked as an arts journalist in France and then as a theatre director in China before formal training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Since graduating he has worked on projects with the Tron, the Traverse, a Play, a Pie & a Pint, An Tobar & Mull Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, Vanishing Point, Raw Material, Groupwork, Wonderfools, Beacon Arts Centre, Nottingham Playhouse, Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, Oily Cart and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Ben is a facilitator for the Traverse’s Class Act programme, an associate artist of the National Youth Theatre, and is currently leading a verbatim theatre project called Empty Chair. He is also a member of Compass Collective, running creative projects with refugees and people seeking asylum across the UK.
