Benjamin Gould

Benjamin graduated with a BA (Hons) Drama (1st Class) from Liverpool Hope University, before completing the MA Professional Acting at Alra, London, in 2010. He then trained in Commedia dell’Arte with internationally acclaimed Fraternal Compagnia in Bologna, Italy, and has been Associate Artist with the company since 2011.
Credits as director / producer include: Romeo and Juliet (Hen & Chickens, London), The Tain (Milan, Italy and tour of Ireland), The Very Special Letter (Stendhal Festival of Arts), Shakespeare’s Women (CQAF, Lyric Theatre and National Tour), Saoirse the Sea Pirate (Belfast Children’s Festival), Women Troubles (CQAF), That Scottish Play! (Lyric Theatre and NI Tour) and I Am Maura (Lyric Theatre and NI Tour).
He has also worked as an Assistant Director on the Lyric Theatre’s New Playwright Programme (alongside Ronan Phelan and Caitriona McLaughlin), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Terra Nova) and Sweeney Todd (NI Opera).
Benjamin is the Artistic Director of Commedia of Errors Theatre Company, managing the company, its productions and its growing outreach programme Plays Aloud, a dementia / elderly specialist performance project. Plays Aloud is in its third year and tours twice annually to over 40 venues across Northern Ireland.
Benjamin recently won the John Fernald Award for an Emerging Director in the UK and Ireland.

Credits

DIRECTOR, I Am Maura, Lyric Theatre and Tour, 2 weeks, 2019
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Midsummer Night's Dream, Queen's Hall, 1 weeks, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Sweeney Todd, Lyric Theatre, 4 weeks, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, New Playwright's Showcase, Lyric Theatre, 1 week, 2018
DIRECTOR, A Moment with Martine, Accicdental Theatre, 1 week, 2018
DIRECTOR, Women Troubles, CQAF and Tour, 3 weeks, 2018
DIRECTOR, That Scottish Play!, Lyric Theatre and Tour, 2 weeks, 2018
DIRECTOR, Saiorse the Sea Pirate, The Barracks, 1 week, 2018
DIRECTOR, Shakespeare's Women, Lyric Theatre and Tour, 2 weeks, 2017
DIRECTOR, The Very Special Letter, Stendhal Festival of Arts, 1 week, 2016
DIRECTOR, The Tain, Tour of Ulster, 2 weeks, 2014/15
DIRECTOR, Romeo and Juliet, Hen and Chickens, 3 weeks, 2013
DIRECTOR, Lancelot and the Dragon, Museo Civico (Bologna), 2012

Training

Academy of Live & Recorded Arts (Alra) MA Professional Acting
Liverpool Hope University BA (Hons) Drama 1st Class

Reach Out Young Vic
Theatre NI Technical Theatre Bursary Belfast Children’s Festival and Maiden Voyage Dance
Commedia dell’Arte Fraternal Compagnia, Bologna