Ben Spatz leads the Urban Research Theater project in New York City. He teaches workshops for theater companies and other groups around the city, with the goal of building a long-term working group.
Mr. Spatz lived for two years in Poland, where he was an apprentice at the Gardzienice Theatre Association and a Fulbright Fellow at the Grotowski Institute. He studied philosophy, literature, history and dance at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and now works in the Office of the President at the Africa-America Institute.