Ben King

BFA STAGE & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, 2018

Ben King has had a steady career as a production manager since graduating from CMU’s BFA Stage and Production Management program in 2018. After working as an Associate Production Manager at Williamstown Theatre Festival shortly after graduation, he joined the team at Aurora Productions, assisting on several Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including “Apologia”(Laura Pels Theatre), “To Kill A Mockingbird” (Shubert Theatre), “King Lear” (Cort Theatre), “Hillary and Clinton” (Golden Theatre), and the load outs of “Carousel” (Imperial Theatre), “Bruce Springsteen on Broadway” (Walter Kerr Theatre), and “The Waverly Gallery” (Golden Theatre). 

For the last five years, Ben has been at Hudson Scenic Studios, Inc., working his way up from Assistant Production Manager, to Associate Production Manager, to full Production Manager in December of 2023.

“My time at CMU was foundational in discovering my leadership and management style of the artistic process. The production framework of the School of Drama, which is modeled after both regional and commercial theaters and scene shops, provided me with management experiences that I still draw upon in my professional career every day. During my senior year studying Stage & Production Management, I had the opportunity to lead a crew of technical designers and fabricators. Fast forward six years and now I project manage Broadway sets every day. CMU provides its students with a hands-on, conservatory environment which gives you the closest thing you can get to professionally making theater in an educational setting.” –Ben King

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