Ben Parman

Ben studied theatre at Wisconsin Lutheran College and graduated from the film program at Full Sail University in Orlando. Moving to NYC, he worked in casting for television and wrote film reviews for Relevant Magazine. For 9 years, Ben served in various roles on staff at Acacia Theatre Company in Milwaukee; currently he continues as their media contact. Soulstice Theater produced his second play, Starlings, which the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel described as "a conversation making as smart and moving a contribution to the halting dialogue between homosexuality and Christianity as I’ve seen on stage." Recently, Ben relocated to Chicago and is trying to write the second act of his life.

DVD/Blu-Ray, ReviewsOctober 16, 2015

Last Holiday

By Ben Parman

“Pity The Blind,” the sign entreats, hung around the neck of a violinist, his eyes closed, as he plays a poignantly displacing melody; the notes are fitful and accepting, braided…

DVD/Blu-Ray, ReviewsSeptember 8, 2015

Targets

By Ben Parman

“The terms amok, a Malayan word, and berserk, a Norse word, have been used to describe individuals going on killing sprees,” says Grant Duwe, author of Mass Murder in the…

DVD/Blu-Ray, ReviewsAugust 4, 2015

Prelude to a Kiss

By Ben Parman

It’s been a decade since I graduated from film school, so maybe I’m forgetting, but I don’t remember studying the opening shot of Prelude to a Kiss. Yet it calls…

DVD/Blu-Ray, ReviewsJune 29, 2015

A New Leaf

By Ben Parman

“[God] cannot tempt to virtue as we do to vice,” Screwtape declares in his titular letters, holy-ghost-written by C.S. Lewis. However Screwtape is one of the leads in a legion…