Ben Power is a writer and dramaturg. Since 2010 he has been an Associate Director of the National Theatre. Dramaturgy for the NT includes: Earthquakes in London, Greenland, Double Feature, 13, Antigone, The Doctor's Dilemma, Timon of Athens and This House.
From 2006-2010, Ben was the Associate Director of Headlong. Work commissioned and developed includes Lucy Prebble's award-winning ENRON (Chichester, Royal Court, West End and Broadway, 2009-10); King Lear (Young Vic and Liverpool Everyman, 2007-08); and Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida, 2007).
Other work for the theatre includes dramaturgy on Complicite's A Disappearing Number (Barbican and International Tour 2008-09), which won the Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play.
