Benjamin McDonald

Ben McDonald is a playwright and theatre director specialising in creating theatre-based CPD that supports reflection and learning among social workers and other professionals. His work has received funding from Arts Council England and includes original productions such as A Bitter Pill and The Art of Dissociation.

Ben’s practice brings together professional actors, musicians, and people with lived and learned experience to explore complex safeguarding issues through live performance. Alongside his creative and research practice, he has extensive experience teaching and directing actors across further and higher education, with particular interests in actor development, collaborative theatre making and preparing emerging performers for the professional industry.