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Ben Crystal
Actor, writer, producer. And Shakespeare. I like Shakespeare.
BEN CRYSTAL
Ben is an actor, writer, and producer.
He was the co-writer of Shakespeare’s Words (Penguin 2002) and The Shakespeare Miscellany (Penguin 2005) with his father David Crystal, and Ben’s first solo book, Shakespeare on Toast – Getting a Taste for the Bard (Icon 2008) was shortlisted for the 2010 Educational Writer of the Year Award.
His theatre productions of Simon Stephens' One Minute in 2008 and Robin French's Gilbert is Dead in 2009 were critically acclaimed, and in 2011 he played Hamlet in the first Original Pronunciation production for 400 years, co-producing with the Nevada Repertory Company.
In 2012 he was the curator, producer and creative director of the first CD of extracts of Shakespeare in Original Pronunciation for the British Library.
In January 2015 he will take his ensemble to Stockholm to present their production of Pericles in OP, which will be live-scored by the Swedish Radio Symphony as part of conductor Daniel Harding's Interplay Festival.
He and his ensemble perform and give workshops on Shakespeare around the world, and some of this work can be viewed at www.passioninpractice.com
He lives in London and online at www.bencrystal.com and Tweets from @bencrystal