Ben Power

Ben Power is a writer and dramaturg. His plays and adaptations include Euripides' Medea and Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre), A Tender Thing (RSC), Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith), Milton's Paradise Lost (UK tour) and for Headlong with Rupert Goold Six Characters in Search of an Author (UK, West End and international Tour) and Faustus (UK tour) . Work for screen includes adaptations of Richard II and Henry V for BBC/NBC Universal as part of the Hollow Crown series. Richard II won...See more

Ben Power is a writer and dramaturg. His plays and adaptations include Euripides' Medea and Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre), A Tender Thing (RSC), Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith), Milton's Paradise Lost (UK tour) and for Headlong with Rupert Goold Six Characters in Search of an Author (UK, West End and international Tour) and Faustus (UK tour) . Work for screen includes adaptations of Richard II and Henry V for BBC/NBC Universal as part of the Hollow Crown series. Richard II won the RTS Award for Best Single Drama. From 2006-2010 he was Associate Director of Headlong and from 2010 an Associate Director of the National Theatre. He was appointed Deputy Artistic Director of the National Theatre in 2015. See less