Ben San Del
Ben San Del Presents
Writer/Producer
Minneapolis
Ben San Del is a past winner of Acme Comedy Co's Funniest Person in the Twin Cities contest and a founding member of the performance troupe the Rockstar Storytellers. He won the Audience Pick Award for Best Storytelling Performance at the 2017 Victoria Fringe Festival for his show Spec, featuring a collection of short science-fiction and horror stories. He is a stand-up comic, storyteller, playwright, former newspaper writer, communications professional, and introvert recovering from social anxiety disorder. Ben was the co-host of the Not-So-Silent Planet Speculative Fiction Podcast and guest host of the No-So-Silent Planet open mic for two years. He has written and produced nine shows for the Minnesota Fringe Festival, including the encore-winning plays Apple Picking, A Nice Guy's Guide to Awkward Sex, and Minnesota Middle Finger, and the one-man shows Fiddlestick Conundrum, An Agony of Fools, and the encore-winning Animal Cracker Genocide. This will be his seventh time attending CONvergence after taking the last two years off.
Meeting for the first time? Here are some possible ice breaker topics: mental health, psychedelics, horror, death, comedy, The Beatles, storytelling, speculative fiction, board games, poker, chess, social anxiety, photography, ADHD.