Chicago

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Ben is a New York City based Project Manager and Lighting Designer, who has worked on Broadway, national tours, immersive, concerts, feature films, and advertising campaigns. Ben recently completed work with Radical Media as lighting designer on “The Blue Paradox” at the world-renowned Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Previously he served as lighting designer on an immersive pop-up “The Living Portrait of New York”, technical director at “Midnight Theatre”, project Manager for an immersive art installation "Forest of Us" by Es Devlin, and as the assistant project director for the renovation of the Lyric Theatre for ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.’

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Chicago

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI

March, 2010

Director: Jay Berkow

Choreographer: Tony Calucci

Scenic Designer: Trevor Frederiksen

Sound Designer: Evan Q. Andrews

Costume Designer: Leandra Watson

Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics byFred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal". The musical is based on a 1926 play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes she reported on.

Photos: Ben Bauer

Chicago

Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI

March, 2010

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI