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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
[[File:Bens_Punk_Rock_Adventure.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Ben in full fairy mode in Harrogate before the performance of Iolanthe 2015]] | [[File:Bens_Punk_Rock_Adventure.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Ben in full fairy mode in Harrogate before the performance of Iolanthe 2015]] | ||
Born Benjamin Jonathan Oliver Walker, Ben | Born Benjamin Jonathan Oliver Walker, Ben is a third year English and philosophy student (though he prefers the term "philosopher poet") who blundered into LOpSoc more or less by accident in his first year, and stayed because he liked the productions' constant use of the word "wherefore". He is the incumbent Loremaster for the 2015/16 academic year, which means he's now responsible for editing and updating all the pages on here to be more current and "on-message with LOpSoc's new corporate philosophy". | ||
Ben began his PA career searching for personal validation in acid trips of shows like ComedySoc's cross-PA production ''The Case of the Film Genre Killer'' and his own stand-up, with limited success. Soon after Genre Killer ended, he and fellow "innocent" first year [[Katie Giles]] were poached by HMS Pinafore director [[Joe Hand]] (the Inspector from ''Genre Killer'') to screw around in the back of his show, thus beginning a beautiful relationship with Victorian colonial propaganda. Ben then went up to Harrogate with the rest of LOpSoc to be a punk rock fairy - in his words, "if there are three words I want to describe me at all times, those would be the three". There, he made an excellent friend in his cup of tea, which was, to quote " the only thing that didn't have the capacity to hurt me." Building on that success, he | Ben began his PA career searching for personal validation in acid trips of shows like ComedySoc's cross-PA production ''The Case of the Film Genre Killer'' and his own stand-up, with limited success. Soon after Genre Killer ended, he and fellow "innocent" first year [[Katie Giles]] were poached by HMS Pinafore director [[Joe Hand]] (the Inspector from ''Genre Killer'') to screw around in the back of his show, thus beginning a beautiful relationship with Victorian colonial propaganda. Ben then went up to Harrogate with the rest of LOpSoc to be a punk rock fairy - in his words, "if there are three words I want to describe me at all times, those would be the three". There, he made an excellent friend in his cup of tea, which was, to quote " the only thing that didn't have the capacity to hurt me." Building on that success, he's now taking a short holiday to Anatevka to be the world's worst Bolshevik in LOpSoc's 2016 production of [[Fiddler on the Roof 2016]]. | ||
After a pretty successful run in Fiddler, he | After a pretty successful run in Fiddler, he's happy to take on the role of the Duke and Duchess' valet/servant/pet monkey Luiz in LOpSoc's upcoming summer show The Gondoliers. He hopes his grade 8 coconut playing skills will be up to the task. | ||
=== Fresher Legends === | === Fresher Legends === | ||
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* Has almost died twice – once due to appendicitis, once due to some terrible unpleasantness on Burgess Road involving a potato. | * Has almost died twice – once due to appendicitis, once due to some terrible unpleasantness on Burgess Road involving a potato. | ||
* TV celebrity baker Paul Hollywood still believes Ben is a homeless apprentice gas fitter named Dan, whom he gave five pounds to help. | * TV celebrity baker Paul Hollywood still believes Ben is a homeless apprentice gas fitter named Dan, whom he gave five pounds to help. | ||
* Partner in crime of [[Katie Giles]], and has never dated her. Not now, not ever. | * Partner in crime of [[Katie Giles]], and has never dated her. Not now, not ever. | ||
* Beautiful Coiffure award for an ungodly amount of hair gel from Genre Killer which was only fully gone five days later and that nobody will ever let go. | * Beautiful Coiffure award for an ungodly amount of hair gel from Genre Killer which was only fully gone five days later and that nobody will ever let go. | ||
* 60% Johnny Depp. (He's very proud of that.) | * 60% Johnny Depp. (He's very proud of that.) | ||
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!Show!!Role | !Show!!Role | ||
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|[[ The Mikado 2017]] ||| ''Koko'' | |[[ The Mikado 2017]] ||| ''Koko'' | ||
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|[[H.M.S. Pinafore 2015]]|||''Sailor Chorus'' | |[[H.M.S. Pinafore 2015]]|||''Sailor Chorus'' | ||