Benjamin Salmon is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and actor based in London, England.

As a writer and creator, Benjamin’s work often explores what it means to be queer, circa now — and all the challenges, humour and complexities that come with that emotional terrain.
His work is funny, emotional, tender — and a little bit dangerous.

After growing up in the West Midlands, Benjamin trained as an actor at National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, before being accepted onto Soho Theatre’s Writers Lab program, where he developed his first play, Blowhole (Pleasance London / Edinburgh, Soho Theatre 2019-23).
His other plays include:- Our House (National Youth Theatre, 2019) and LOVE BOMB (National Youth Theatre, 2023).

Benjamin was commissioned to write the play, Lear is Not Okay, which was devised with the Almeida Theatre Young Company. The play premiered at the Almeida Theatre in March 2024.

At the end of 2024, Benjamin received a DYCP (Developing Your Creative Practice) grant from Arts Council England, in response to “Bringing Queer Writing into the Mainstream”, and is currently working on two new plays with this funding.

In 2020, Benjamin was included on Sister Pictures and Olivia Colman’s South of the River Pictures’ SCREENSHOT commendation list of the most exciting comedy writer-performers based in the UK.

Benjamin’s spec script for television, CHUTZPAH, received a nomination for Best Comedy Script at the 2022 TV Foundation New Voice Awards.

Benjamin has written and contributed to online outlets such as What’s On Stage. He also teaches and facilitates courses, workshops and masterclasses that explore playwriting, comedy and acting for various organisations including National Theatre, Soho Theatre, Synergy Theatre Project, Old Vic Theatre and Roundhouse. He is a Visiting Lecturer at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.

Benjamin lives in London — and, in his spare time, he enjoys making his nieces and nephews laugh / roll their eyes.