performance artist, writer, and activist, born in the people's republic of cambridge massachusetts, went to CRLS and then to wesleyan university in connecticut. now living in nyc, trying to discover & create radical art that is relevent and necessary in the context of global capitalism, economic & environmental justice, and the "wars" on terrorism and drugs.

EYES: blue.

HAIR: brown.

COLOR: purple.

DREAMS: action/adventure.

MOVIES: Aimee & Jaguar, Blade Runner, Bulworth, Children of Paradise, The City of Lost Children, The Commitments, Deep Impact, Doctor Strangelove, The English Patient, Fame, La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, Girlstown, Glory, Good Morning Vietnam, The Grand Illusion, The Journey of Natty Gann, Last of the Mohicans, Night on Earth, Pi, The Prince of Egypt, The Princess Bride, Pump up the Volume, Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt), Runaway Train, Running on Empty, The Seven Samurai, Six Degrees of Separation, Skywhales, Titanic, Twelve Angry Men, Twelve Monkeys.

BOOKS: Middlemarch, Girl Interrupted, The Plague, The Neverending Story, Momo, Eva Luna, Imajica, The Great and Secret Show, The Foundation Series, Bridge to Terabithia, No More Prisons, If Not Now When?

TELEVISION: My So-Called Life, Thirty-Something, Sportsnight, The West Wing, Sesame Street, Square 1, Thundercats, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Reasonable Doubt, Queer as Folk.

THEATER: Odin Teatret, Blue Man Group, Staniewski Gardzienice, Bread & Puppet, Cirque du Soleil, Anna Deavere Smith, Roger Guenvere Smith, Helmnot Theater Lichtenstein, Stateless Theater, Burgtheater Wien, Volksbuehne am Rosa Luxembourg Platz, Slant, Elevator Repair Service, Cornerstone, Slant Performance Group, Susanna Cook, Hip-Hop Theater Junction, Akim Funk Buddha, Pilobolus.

HEROES: Ani Difranco. Audre Lorde. Alice Walker. Roger Guenvere Smith. Peter Schumann. Walt Whitman. Kaethe Kollwitz. Anna Deavere Smith. Jules Feiffer. Albert Camus. Bertolt Brecht. Elie Wiesel. Primo Levi. Peter Sellars. Tracy Chapman. Martin Luther King. James Brown. Utah Phillips. George Orwell. William Upski Wimsatt. Bill Rauch. Edward Said. Malcolm X. Alvin Ailey. Peter Brook. Jack Kerouac. Cornel West. Ralph Nader. Julie Taymor. Peter Shaffer. AndrŽ Gregory. Bill T. Jones. Mark Morris. Stephen Petronio. Arthur Ganson. Bill Irwin. Cirque du Soleil. Luc Besson. Terry Gilliam. Julia Kristeva. Martin Gardner. Douglas Hofstadter. Tony Kushner. Antonin Artaud. Jean Anouilh. Jean-Claude van Itallie. Henrik Ibsen. William Shakespeare. Marcel Marceau. Jean-Louis Barrault. Laurence Olivier. Konstantin Stanislavski. Isadora Duncan. Leonardo da Vinci. DH Lawrence. Heinrich von Kleist. Buster Keaton. Virginia Woolf. George Elliot. Max Ernst. Noam Chomski. Jerzy Grotowski. Staniewski. Eugenio Barba. Iben Nagel Rasmussen. Michael Stipe. Pablo Picasso. Simon Reynolds. Charles Mee.

ben spatz: straight white male or queer punk boy?

email bspatz@anagnorisis.org
photos of my work are in the portfolio
you can also download my resume

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