Ben Power

Ben Power
Power at the 75th Tony Awards in 2022
Alma mater	University of Cambridge

Ben Power^[1] is a British dramaturg and playwright. Since 2010 he has primarily worked at the National Theatre.^[2]

He adapted Stefano Massini's play The Lehman Trilogy for the National Theatre in 2018. It transferred to the West End and Broadway, where it won the 2022 Tony Award for Best Play. His screenplays include the Netflix adaptation of Robert Harris (novelist)' Munich - The Edge of War and several parts of the BBC Shakespeare series The Hollow Crown (TV series).

He studied English at Cambridge University. He often collaborates with Rupert Goold and his Headlong company.^[3] He was dramaturg and Literary Associate on A Disappearing Number for Complicite, which won the 2007 Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle and Olivier awards for Best Play.

In 2011 he wrote the adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's epic Emperor and Galilean for the National Theatre. Between 2013 and 2016 he oversaw the National Theatre's temporary space, The Shed. His new version of Euripides' Medea, starring Helen McCrory in the eponymous role, ran at the National Theatre from July to September 2014.^[4]

In 2015 he was appointed deputy artistic director of the National Theatre; the role had not previously existed.^[5] In 2016 he condensed three works by D. H. Lawrence into a single play, presented as Husbands and Sons in the National's Dorfman theatre and in 2024 he adapted Dickens' Our Mutual Friend into London Tide, a play with songs by PJ Harvey.