Ben Walker

Biography

Ben in full fairy mode in Harrogate before the performance of Iolanthe 2015

Ben is a second year English and philosophy student (though he prefers the term "philosopher poet" or "shit stirrer extrordinaire") who blundered into LOpSoc more or less by accident in his first year, and stayed because he liked the productions' constant use of the word "wherefore". He is the incumbent Loremaster for the 2015/16 academic year, which means he's now responsible for editing and updating all the pages on here to be more current and "on-message with LOpSoc's new corporate philosophy".

Ben began his PA career searching for personal validation in acid trips of shows like ComedySoc's cross-PA production The Case of the Film Genre Killer and his own stand-up, with limited success. Soon after Genre Killer ended, he and fellow "innocent" first year Katie Giles were poached by HMS Pinafore director Joe Hand (the Inspector from Genre Killer) to screw around in the back of his show, thus beginning a beautiful relationship with Victorian colonial propaganda. Ben then went up to Harrogate with the rest of LOpSoc to be a punk rock fairy - in his words, "if there are three words I want to describe me at all times, those would be the three". Building on that success, he's now taking a short holiday to Anatevka to be the world's worst Bolshevik in LOpSoc's 2016 production of Fiddler on the Roof.

His life's ambition is to never work anywhere where you have to wear a uniform.

Major Achievements

• Broke the world record for usage of the word “aubergine” in 5 minutes of regular conversation.
• Former TF2 EU Highlander Open quarter-finalist (thereby proving your headshot skill increases as your amount of friends decreases).
• Has written nearly 150,000 words of terrible prose and poetry in his compilation “Streets Swallow Their Own Tails and Choke”.
• Almost died twice before he was 16 – once due to appendicitis, once due to some terrible unpleasantness on Burgess Road involving a potato.
• TV celebrity baker Paul Hollywood still believes Ben is a homeless apprentice gas fitter named Dan, whom he gave five pounds to help.
• Teaming up with Katie Giles to create untold sass power and Shakespeare in normal conversation.
• Attempting to dye his hair purple and having literally nothing happen. Because listening to folk in shop trying to sell you hair dye will never work.

Past Roles

Show	Role
Fiddler on the Roof	Perchik
Iolanthe 2015	Fairy Chorus
H.M.S. Pinafore 2015	Sailor Chorus