Cast and Creatives
Ben Cracknell
Ben is an Associate Artist of Curve in Leicester. He trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in London where he was honoured to be awarded a Fellowship in 2021.
West End includes: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium), Heathers (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Inala (Peacock Theatre), Young Frankenstein (Garrick), Annie (Piccadilly), Pantoland at The Palladium, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Snow White, Dick Whittington and Cinderella (London Palladium); Breakfast at Tiffanys (Theatre Royal Haymarket), All the Fun of the Fair (Garrick), Visiting Mr Green (Trafalgar Studios), Dancing in the Streets (Cambridge) and African Snow (Trafalgar Studios).
Regional and UK tours include: Sunset Boulevard & The Color Purple At Home (Streamed from Curve), Priscilla Queen of the Desert, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Rough Crossing, Dracula, Rock of Ages, The Addams Family, La Cage Aux Folles (UK Tours), Love on the Links & Before the Party (Salisbury Playhouse), My Beautiful Laundrette, An Officer and a Gentleman, Sunset Boulevard, Beautiful Thing (Curve/UK Tour), What the Butler Saw (Curve/Theatre Royal Bath), The Importance of Being Ernest (Birmingham Rep/Curve), Kiss Me Kate (WNO/Opera North), Saturday Night Fever (Theatre Royal, Bath/UK tour), The Tempest, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It (Stafford Shakespeare Festival), The Memory of Water (New Vic, Stoke), Our House (New Wolsey, Ipswich/UK Tour), Sherlock Holmes, Angus Thongs and Even more Snogging (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Merrily We Roll Along (Theatre Clwyd).
International includes: Chess (Tokyo & Osaka), La Clemenza di Tito (Opéra de Lausanne/Opera de Oviedo), Romeo und Julia (Theater Trier), Annie and Chess (Toronto), The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Life, Strangers On A Train, Sweet Charity and Tommy (English Theatre, Frankfurt), Legally Blonde (South Korea), Inala (Sadlers Wells/International tour), Faust, 1984 (Altes Schauspielhaus, Stuttgart), Dracula (Singapore/Bangkok) and Voices of The Amazon.
Television includes: Quadrophenia, The Classic Brit Awards (Royal Albert Hall), The Olivier Awards 2011 - 2019 (2014 & 2019 Knight of Illumination Award for Best Lighting, Royal Opera House and Royal Albert Hall), The Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra (Royal Festival Hall) and Il Divo (Coliseum).