Ben’s play Is This Desire? was longlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award in 2023 and the Bread & Roses Playwriting Award in 2024.
A rehearsed reading was directed by Offie Award winner Matthew Parker in the annual LGBTQ+ 96 Festival at Omnibus Theatre in June 2024, performed by Lewis Chandler, Barney Doran, Paula Gilmour, Isabelle Lee and Maire McGovern.
This is Ben’s mood board for the initial concept of a film version.
Aphrodyki club night, Shoreditch (Image: Kate Tuck / Black House Pics)
Lick nightclub, Vauxhall (Image: Chanel Moye)
Lick nightclub, Vauxhall (Image: Chanel Moye)
The Fridge, Brixton, 1993. (Image: Rick Colls/REX Shutterstock)
Patrick Wolf (Under the Radar 31.8.12, image uncredited)
W London x Glitterbox x Gay Times, A Deeper Love party (Gay Times, image uncredited)
Still from I’m Your Man (Susanne Oberbeck aka No Bra and Slava Mogutin)
(Image: Asier Goikoetxea for Beltane Fire Society)
Leila Le Fey (The Telegraph 27.2.20, image uncredited)
Clive Owen, Sin City
The Goddess and the Green Man, Glastonbury. (Image: shop website)