Benjamin Friedman

Benjamin Friedman is a published creative writer, performing poet, and award-winning screenwriter who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with honors and a degree in English and Cinema Studies. He has also worked in environments as disparate as the American Museum of Natural History, a New Jersey senator's office, an organic permaculture farm, a treatment center for low-income patients with cognitive disabilities, a yoga and spirituality retreat center, and a Manhattan marketing agency -- all while pursuing his own independent studies in philosophy, history, psychology, and religion.