Ben Hartley
Biography: Ben Hartley was first seen on Broadway in Matthew Bourne’s TONY award winning Swan Lake followed by Fiddler on the Roof, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Enron, & City Center Encores! staging of Follies. West End productions to include Cats, Fosse, Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella & The Carman. He was part of The Most Happy Fella & Pirates of Penzance at NYCO & Hello Dolly at The Papermill Playhouse. He was also a member of The Met Opera Ballet andEnglish National Ballet. Modeling work has included companies such as Ericsson, Aveda & has been featured in New Yorker Magazine and American Vogue. Ben was on the theater dance faculty at Broadway Dance Center NYC and has guest taught for various companies, schools and studios in the UK, across Europe, Japan and the USA. He choreographed for the London based Ballet Central tour, various TV specials, industrials and cabaret. Ben choreographed Gypsy starring Andrea McArdle at the UHCL Bayou Theater, Houston, Texas; a production of Hairspray for the All-School-Musical in Stamford, Connecticut, and most recently La Guardia High School’s production of Guys and Dolls. Ben is the founder & director of The Broadway Experience musical theater program running every summertime in NYC, (tbenyc.com) and Broadway Arts Factory, a 501(c)(3) educational institution running year round devoted to the training of triple threat musical theatre.