Ben Wagner

Ben Wagner joins the GPS team this fall as the Technical Theater Director and Theater Manager. He worked as the Technical Theater Director at The Prairie School in Racine, Wisconsin, for three years. For the last two years, Ben served as Technical Director and Production Manager at the Pam Miller Arts Center in Lexington, Kentucky, and he also served as the Interim Technical Director at Georgetown College in Kentucky. In these varied roles, he's worked on some cool projects, from creating mechanical stages to working on local crews for Bob Dylan to lighting an aerial circus and just about everything in between. During his first year of teaching, he and his students were contenders for and winners of regional awards in several areas of technical theater, where he realized that helping others discover that magic and develop their talents was even more gratifying than getting to be backstage as in-house lighting support for John Cougar Mellencamp. Ben holds a BA in neuroscience and theatre from Transylvania University (Lexington, Kentucky).