Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner is an actor and comedian based in New York City. Raised in the NYC suburb of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, Ben showed an early interest in performing and began regularly doing musical theatre at the age of 8. Ben graduated from Hastings High School in 2011, having won a local high school theatre award for his performance as Hysterium in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," as well as having been nominated for his work as Ali Hakim in "Oklahoma!" Ben matriculated to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he continued to perform in such productions as "The Rover" (Colonel Belville), "The Normal Heart" (Craig/Grady) and "Gypsy" (Mazeppa/Yonkers). He graduated in 2015, magna cum laude, with a B.A. in English. In the years since, Ben has been living and acting in New York City, both onstage and onscreen. He performed as Mr. Mushnik in 9 to 5 Productions' "Little Shop of Horrors" in November 2016 and joined the cast of the city's longest-running off-off-Broadway play, "LINE," as Dolan for a six-month run at the 13th Street Repertory Theatre from 2016-17. He also appeared in a viral music video, "WeR1," for Israeli artists Gad Elbaz, DeScribe and Nissim. Ben debuted an original parody music video, "Rosé's Turn," in July 2017 on YouTube and Facebook. He appeared as Dominick Giorgio in Investigation Discovery's "Deadliest Decade" in the episode "The Death of Disco," which aired on DiscoveryID in November 2017. Ben studies improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade. He can be found on Twitter @LernerBen.