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* Former TF2 EU Highlander Open quarter-finalist (thereby proving your headshot skill increases as your amount of friends decreases). | * Former TF2 EU Highlander Open quarter-finalist (thereby proving your headshot skill increases as your amount of friends decreases). | ||
* Has written nearly 150,000 words of terrible prose and poetry in his compilation “Streets Swallow Their Own Tails and Choke”. | * Has written nearly 150,000 words of terrible prose and poetry in his compilation “Streets Swallow Their Own Tails and Choke”. | ||
* | * 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. | ||
Revision as of 21:24, 11 October 2015
Biography
Ben is a second 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". 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.
His life's ambition is to never work anywhere where you have to wear a uniform.
Major Achievements
- Broke the world record for usage of the word “aubergine” in 5 minutes of regular conversation.
- Former TF2 EU Highlander Open quarter-finalist (thereby proving your headshot skill increases as your amount of friends decreases).
- Has written nearly 150,000 words of terrible prose and poetry in his compilation “Streets Swallow Their Own Tails and Choke”.
- 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.
- Partner in crime of Katie Giles, and has never dated her. Not now, not ever.
Past Roles
| Show | Role |
|---|---|
| Fiddler on the Roof | Perchik |
| Iolanthe 2015 | Fairy Chorus |
| H.M.S. Pinafore 2015 | Sailor Chorus |