Professor Ben t. Matchstick founded Cardboard Teck Instantute in 2005. He is a performing artist working in the mediums of cardboard, games, and stories.
Ben has worked as a youth advocate, librarian, cafe owner, educator, puppeteer, artist, and entrepreneur in Vermont for 20+ years. He is the founder of Cardboard Teck Instantute.
Ben is the co-creator (with Pete Talbot) of the award-winning PinBox 3000 cardboard tabletop pinball machine kit. Ben is the production and media manager and storyteller for the PinBox 3000, which has sold over 25,000 units since its invention in 2015.
Ben co-conceived Hadestown (with Anaïs Mitchell), now on Broadway. Hadestown began in Central Vermont and went on to win 8 Tony awards.
Ben was a traveling company member with Bread & Puppet Theater for 4 years and 8 summers. He a proud member of Generator Maker Space in Burlington Vermont.
He graduated with a BA in Theater from Northwestern University, and holds a MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College.
Bordertown is an ecomedia project coming to you from the upper Winooski watershed in central Vermont. Out goal is to serve as an instrument for relationship building and communicaiton, and to encourage the conversation around resiliency , equity and justice. Our intention is to celebrate life and community - and to help create conditions for all life to thrive.
Music for this Podcast - "Cold Water" by Railroad Earth.
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