Benjamin Reeves

Screenwriter | Journalist | Media Consultant

Benjamin Reeves is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and communications consultant. He uses talents developed as a journalist to create new worlds and tell real stories in emerging and diverse formats.

As the founder of communications consultancy and production company Ars Scribendi, he’s provided ghostwriting, speechwriting, communications advising, and production services to high profile individuals and organizations in fields ranging from finance to philanthropy to politics. In addition to his creative work as a screenwriter, director, and producer, he is currently the head speechwriter for New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

He earned a BA in Latin from Knox College, an MA in Experimental Humanities at New York University and an MFA in Screenwriting at the Brooklyn College Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.

Recent Work

Building a Complex World in Simple Steps

What we learned creating cross-platform fantasy storyworld Ballads of the Distant Reaches Some of today’s most ambitious stories take place within enormous, shared universes. Think of Game of Thrones, Star Wars, The Witcher, Marvel, The Lord of the Rings—the list goes on and on. Typically, these movies, TV shows, books, video games, and comics draw their inspiration from older source material. […]

How To Make a Short Film Without Going (Totally) Crazy

There’s no right way to make a film, but there are things you can do to help it go more smoothly. A short film can be creatively fulfilling, a way for a writer or director to start bringing their vision to life, and—if it’s successful—a gateway into the film industry. Unfortunately, just because a film […]

The Dividends of War: How Ukraine’s Entrepreneurs and Economists Are Fighting Back

“A lot of perceptions” changed for Maxim Shkolnick, a Ukrainian real estate entrepreneur and financier, on February 24, 2022. “I woke up in my house around five in the morning, and my wife was like, ‘we’re being bombed.’ Surreal concept, right? And then another missile hit.” He pauses. “When a ballistic missile hits the ground […]

Ballads of the Distant Reaches

I am the creator and co-editor of Ballads of the Distant Reaches, a bi-weekly anthology of illustrated fantasy short stories. I created this project and storyworld beginning in mid-2021 and brought on co-creator and co-editor Robert Frankel shortly thereafter. This project brings together some of the top genre writers working today with an incredible team […]

Do You Really Need An HQ?

Hybrid offices are challenging old assumptions and putting CHROs at the middle of a revolution in how we work. Over drinks on a recent rainy, early-Fall evening in Soho, the chief executive of a rapidly growing tech firm was debating the merits of leasing office space for a new global headquarters in Manhattan with an […]

The Compensation Race Is On, And Anyone Could Win (Or Lose)

As wages rise, CHROs keep quiet and offices are on the chopping block. Unwelcome and unexplained specters seem to lurk everywhere these days. The Covid-19 pandemic, while ostensibly on the wane in nations with easy access to vaccines, continues to sow volatility and uncertainty in people’s lives and the markets, and the new Delta variant […]

How Top CHROs Are Surfing The Talent Tsunami

The coronavirus pandemic upended the world of work, and now heads of human resources are pulling out the stops to win the war for talent. The coronavirus pandemic has already changed the world. The human tragedy is almost unfathomable, and its economic impacts continue to reverberate. Virtually overnight in March 2020, millions of workers shifted […]

Crossing Acheron

A woman grapples with the existential implications of a new AI technology, her mother’s death, and the blurring boundaries between the physical and digital, life and death.

‘Joker’ Isn’t Dangerous – Our Apathy Is

The fuss over the film coincided with four real-life murders that were entirely preventable.

The Business of the Border — Why America’s Economy Depends on San Diego

Thanks in large part to a border economy that defies stereotypes and a world-class scientific community, a city famous for its surf is riding a different kind of wave.

Can Savannah Survive a Trade War?

Savannah, Ga., known worldwide for its historic architecture and cultural richness, has a grittier but no less important asset: the Port of Savannah, a massive engine helping to drive the modern global economy.

How Tech Titans Are Disrupting Philanthropy

Bay Area tech entrepreneurs have changed how we communicate and do business. Now the community is trying to disrupt philanthropy by reinventing capitalism.

How George Lucas’ New Museum Could Transform Downtown LA

Star Wars creator George Lucas’ vision of a museum of narrative art is big, bold and unapologetically popular. And Los Angeles, with its unique mix of high and low culture, is the perfect place to build it.

Russell Okung Plays Offense

The NFL player is an agent, an angel investor and activist and a philanthropist.

Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ Family Values

In the 1990s, she was a successful child actress. Now, after striking out on her own, an heir to one of America’s most famous fortunes is putting that money to good work.

Journey of the Jaguar

Reeves worked closely with global big cat conservation group Panthera to create a live multi-media journey through jaguar territory in Brazil and Colombia.

Templeton World

Reeves created, writes and edits the Templeton World Charity Foundation’s blog. He works closely with the Foundation’s president and management team to craft their long-term communications strategy, promote their strategic goals and communicate the breadth of their work across the sciences and around the globe.

Columbia Business School

Reeves began his relationship with Columbia Business School as a staff writer on their communication’s team and has continued to be a regular contributor to the alumni magazine, the school’s thought leadership publication, Ideas At Work, and the publications of the Chazen Global Institute.

Imagination

In conjunction with global experience company Imagination, Reeves has helped craft high impact, cross-platform narratives for companies in industries including financial services, investment management and technology.

The “Billions” Producers Talk Power

Showtime’s hedge fund drama is television’s most insightful show about financial power. So Worth asked executive producers David Levien and Brian Koppelman to tell us where—and how—they get their material.

Meet The Naked Billionaires

Why men like Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein lie about their wealth, and why the New York City business media lets them.

Did Fearless Girl Change Anything for Women on Wall Street?

When State Street Global Advisors launched a woman-oriented exchange traded fund and placed the Fearless Girl statue in Lower Manhattan, the financial firm said it wanted to change the way thousands of companies do business. Two years later, is Wall Street a better place for women?

The Ghost of the Jungle

In remembrance of Alan Rabinowitz, one of the modern era’s great conservation scientists.

Making the Difference

Erika Irish Brown ’98, global head of diversity and inclusion for financial-information powerhouse Bloomberg, is working to disrupt the modern-day workplace and open its doors to the world.

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Belcher Family Values

Drug traffickers are wiping out the jaguar in Central America

Imagination

Columbia Business School

Private Army

Crossing Acheron

Benjamin Reeves

Recent Work

Building a Complex World in Simple Steps

How To Make a Short Film Without Going (Totally) Crazy

The Dividends of War: How Ukraine’s Entrepreneurs and Economists Are Fighting Back

Ballads of the Distant Reaches

Do You Really Need An HQ?

The Compensation Race Is On, And Anyone Could Win (Or Lose)

How Top CHROs Are Surfing The Talent Tsunami

Crossing Acheron

‘Joker’ Isn’t Dangerous – Our Apathy Is

The Business of the Border — Why America’s Economy Depends on San Diego

Can Savannah Survive a Trade War?

How Tech Titans Are Disrupting Philanthropy

How George Lucas’ New Museum Could Transform Downtown LA

Russell Okung Plays Offense

Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ Family Values

Journey of the Jaguar

Templeton World

Columbia Business School

Imagination

The “Billions” Producers Talk Power

Meet The Naked Billionaires

Did Fearless Girl Change Anything for Women on Wall Street?

The Ghost of the Jungle

Making the Difference