Ben is co-artistic director of Dead Centre.  

As co-writer and co-director, theatre for Dead Centre includes: The Education of Rudolf Steiner (Schauspiel Stuttgart), Illness as Metaphor (Dublin Fringe), The World is Everything That is the Case and The Interpretation of Dreams (Burgtheater, Vienna), Chekhov’s First Play, Hamnet, Beckett’s Room, To Be a Machine (Version 1.0) and Good Sex (all Dublin Theatre Festival), LIPPY (Dublin Fringe).  

Opera for Dead Centre includes: Teorema (Deutsche Oper, Berlin); Bählaams Fest (Ruhrtriennale). 

As director, other theatre includes: In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) (Gate); Spring Awakening (Headlong); The Shawl (Young Vic).