Ben Burris

Ben BurrisFounding Member, Assistant Artistic Director, and Resident Instructor

Ben joined Clemson’s Mock Turtle Soup his freshman year in 2007, rocking 4 years of short and longform improv, sketch, and some stand-up comedy. With the Rapscallion, Clemson’s short-lived humor publication, he also honed his humor writing skills. He’s performed at the Blackbox Improv Festival, the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, the Charleston Comedy Festival, and the VFW in Moonville, SC. He has taken workshops with instructors from Annoyance, iO, Second City, Relapse, JaCKPie, Magnet, UCB, Magnet and DSI Comedy Theaters. When not on Alchemy’s stage, you can often see his forays into stand-up and film. During the day Ben works for an industrial safety solutions company as an electrical engineer.