Screenwriter.
Director.
Educator.
Story. Vision. Creativity. Message. Cinema. Television. Commercial. Social. Comedy. Genre. Film. Communication. Media.
Story. Vision. Creativity. Message. Cinema. Television. Commercial. Social. Comedy. Genre. Film. Communication. Media.
Short film (10 mins). Written and directed by Ben Crisp.
A couple’s marriage falls apart on the floor of the bank where they are stuck as hostages during a robbery.
Official Selection - Flickerfest 2025, St Kilda Film Festival 2025
Robbed
ABC Television. 6 x 30 minutes comedy. Series writer.
Squinters celebrates the comically mundane peak-hour ritual for the workers of Kosciusko, a consumer goods dispatch center under threat of takeover.
Squinters
ABC iView. 6 x 6 minutes comedy. Written by Ben Crisp.
A friendly Uber driver confuses his passengers, makes his Dad proud, and struggles to ask his crush out on a date.
Winner - Best Australian Comedy - Melbourne WebFest 2017
Goober
Lorna Jane - Never Give Up
Online brand campaign. 1 x 1-minute. Written and directed by Ben and Kate Crisp.
A series of women support each other through everyday acts of kindness and service.
Creative. Writing.
Dr Ben Crisp is an award-winning screenwriter and director, and tertiary education manager and academic.
His credits include Season 1 and 2 of the hit ABC TV comedy series Squinters, starring Tim Minchin and Academy Award nominee Jackie Weaver, as well as the Logie Award-winning lifestyle series The Living Room for Network Ten, starring Amanda Keller and Dr Chris Brown.
Ben is the writer and creator of the ABC comedy series Goober, winner of Best Australian Comedy at Melbourne Web Fest. He has been nominated for the Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Award and the Western Australia Premier's Book Award, and was the recipient of Screen Australia's Enterprise People, the Colin Thiele Scholarship for Creative Writing, and the University of Adelaide Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence.
Ben served as Director of Sydney Film School, has a PhD in Creative Writing, and his curricula feature in the higher education programs at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA). He is a regular juror for the International Emmy Awards’ Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award, and is the co-author of the chapter "Having Something To Say And Saying It Well" in The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production.
