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Ben is an L.A.-native with over 20 years of writing, voiceover and entertainment experience. He most recently helped to create and develop a new animated series for Tyler Perry Studios™ based upon Perry’s popular character, alter-ego “Madea”. As a freelance writer, Ben provides creative services under his own independent banner, BenWriting™. He formed the entity after serving as Executive Vice President of Creative Production for Toonacious Family Entertainment™, a company he co-founded in 2001. Ben scripted the company's "Lenny & Sid", DVD series as well as three songs for the project. Upon selling over 70,000 copies, he also adapted 120 radio shorts from the series, which ran on over 300 syndicated radio programs, nationwide.
This was a natural fit for Ben, who started his entertainment career as a radio broadcaster/writer in 1985 as the “late night disc jockey” on a small radio station in Tucson, Arizona. It was here that he began to hone his quick-wit. Soon he was in charge of creating advertising concepts, writing and producing commercial copy. Ben’s growing love for creative writing led him to the Bay Area. After a four-year stint in Northern California as a comedy writer and broadcaster, Ben returned to Los Angeles.
There, he joined (now Clear Channel Communications™) 92.3 BEAT in Los Angeles as a comedy writer, creative producer and on-air talent. The show became L.A.’s #1 rated morning show over its nine year run. A desire to transition from writing short form skits to feature length scripts was the creative motivation for starting Toonacious in 2001. Ben spent the next seven years as head writer, managing all creative, written content for the company as well as voice casting/directing, audio production and production staff management. After fulfilling a personal commitment and goal to write his first, feature-length screenplay – BenWriting™ was born! Under BenWriting™, Ben provides everything from script coverage and consultancy to character/story development all the way to final script.
Ben is happily married and currently lives in San Fernando Valley, CA with his wife, Leslie of over 20 years and their four children |
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