Ben Elton Ben Elton Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on series such as "The Young Ones" and "Blackadder", as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television. His style in the 1980s was left-wing political satire. Since then he has published 15 novels and written the musicals "We Will Rock You" (2002) and "Love Never Dies" (2010), the sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera". His novels cover the dystopian, comedy, and
Ben Lewis (writer) Ben Lewis (writer) Ben Lewis is a writer for theatre, radio and television, theatre director and performer, who trained at LAMDA. He co-created and directed "My Name Is Sue" (Soho Theatre/touring, Total Theatre Award 2009) and "The Village Social" (2011) with Dafydd James. Ben has also written two plays for BBC Radio 4: "Blue Sky Thinking" (9 September 2008) and "Tiny" (17 September 2010). He is co-Artistic Director of "Inspector Sands", and co-created its shows, "If That's All There Is" (Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Award 2009) and "Hysteria" (Total Theatre Award 2006), which have toured extensively in the UK and