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Ben Spatz is Artistic Director of Urban Research Theater. With Maximilian Balduzzi he created and performed in PLAY/WAR (Medicine Show Theater, Abrons Arts Center) and THEATRICALE: A TRAGEDY (Lincoln Center Atrium, The Living Theater). RITE OF THE BUTCHER, the first part of Ben's solo performance trilogy THE DESERT, will premiere at the United Solo Festival in Times Square this November. Earlier work-in-progress versions of this piece have been shown at Medicine Show Theatre, Movement Research at Judson Church and an artistic conference at University of the Streets, organized by Panoply Lab.

From 2003-2005, Ben lived and worked with the Gardzienice Theatre Company of Poland, performing in the works ELEKTRA and METAMORFOZY. The following year he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw. Ben has taught and led workshops at Cave Arts, the Genesis Project, Eden's Expressway, Yale University, and the City University of New York, where he is writing a dissertation on embodied technique, practice, and research. Ben's writing has been published in both academic and artistic journals. He teaches at CUNY Staten Island and is an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research.