Ben Caplan

Ben  Trained as an actor at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre includes: The Winter’s Tale(RSC), The Exorcist(UK Tour), Describe the Night(Hampstead), The Knowledge(Charing Cross),Hedda Gabler(Salisbury), Abigail’s Party(Bath and UK tour), Sunny Afternoon(Hampstead, Harold Pinter), Shiver(Watford Palace), Playing with Grown Ups(Theatre503), Dr.Korczak’s Example and A Winter’s Tale(Unicorn), Titanic(MAC Belfast), Pushing Up Poppies(Theatre 503), Seven Jewish Children(Royal Court),The Common Pursuit(Menier Chocolate Factory), Three sisters on Hope street( Everyman Liverpool,Hampstead), Two Thousand Years(Mike Leigh National Theatre and tour), Hamlet (Nuffield Theatre); The Dwarfs (Tricycle Theatre); Romeo & Juliet(UK Tour), As You Like It, Sweat (Bloomsbury),Hedda Gabler, The Man of the future is Dead(Edinburgh),Rose and the Ring; Guys & Dolls, Les Grandes Meaulnes, Judging Billy Jones (Young Vic.) Television includes: Lagging(BBC), Small Axe(BBC), Silent Witness(BBC),Casualty(BBC), Midsummer Murders(ITV), Maigret (ITV), X Company, The Coroner(BBC), New Blood(BBC), The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries(ITV), Call The Midwife Series 1-6 Playing Sergeant Peter Noakes(BBC),Whitechapel(ITV), Dark Matters(Discovery), The Runaway(Sky), Trinity(ITV), The Passion(HBO/BBC), Maxwell(international Emmy), The Candidate, Judge John Deed, Dwarfs, Band of Brothers(HBO/BBC-winner of Golden Globe and Emmy),A Touch of Frost, Soldier, Soldier, Inspector Morse, The Perfect Blue, Where The Heart Is. Film: Pretty Red Dress, Caveat, The Commuter, Leap Year, Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla, Driver(official selection for the London Film Festival 2009), Hospital, Patrick Mann’s Daughter, Scotch Corner. Directing credits include: Theatre: Snapshot Shakespeare(RSC), SNAP.CATCH.SLAM(Pleasance, Edinburgh),The Collector(Underbelly Edinburgh and Arcola London), King Lear, As You Like it, King John, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, Orphans, Macbeth(Various Drama Schools). Short films: Intelligence(winner Best Dark Comedy short Independent Shorts Awards), Embraceable You(Best Isolation Short Film LAMP), Silence(Capsule Award Winner),Panic Buy, Park Life, Hope, Intern, Man’s Best Friend, Kung Fu Action Chic, Wilting. Started Aslan Productions in 2002 and co-produced “Everything is Illuminated” (Hampstead Theatre.)