About
Ben Yoganathan is an actor, writer, composer, and director born in Sri Lanka and based in Toronto. He holds a BFA in Performance: Acting from Toronto Metropolitan University. Since graduating, he has performed as Hal/Henry V in Driftwood Theatre's Henry Five, Andrei in The Howland Company's Three Sisters, and Todd Tweedie in Mixtape Project's Dora-nominated musical Killing Time.
As a composer, Ben has contributed music to Kole Durnford's play ECHO (Edmonton Fringe Festival) and several dance works: Embrasement Synaptique by Zach Bastille (Festival Quartiers Danses), a subject by Alli Carry (Fall for Dance North), and The Skin by Emily Duckett (Kinetic Studio Open Series).
Ben has written two full-length plays: Hunger, which premiered at the Terra Firma Festival at the Theatre Centre, and ZEITGEIST, a workshop production he directed earlier this year and which is set to premiere at the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival.
He recently completed a creation residency with Experi Theater in Zurich, Switzerland, where he developed and performed a one-person show. Ben was also selected for an international residency with the Odin Teatret in Ringkobing, Denmark.