Benjy Young is a filmmaker, master rigger, sculptor, and theater director. He was a founding member of Theater Artaud in 1981 and is now Artistic Director of Vertigone Aerial Theater.

From 1984 to 1999 he was head rigger for Local 16, the international association of theatrical stage hands and motion picture operators, and has been the engineering artist and head rigger for Ned Kahn Studios, Zaccho Dance Theatre, Circo Zero and SandiaCircus.

In 1973 Benjy became a resident of Project Artaud, a non-profit art community in San Francisco's Mission District. He has been instrumental in establishing SPACE 124, Project Artaud's active performance and fine art gallery which provides community access to local and international artists.

From 1977 - 1979, as producer and curator, Benjy and his team produced hundreds of jazz, dance, and fine art shows at San Francisco's premier underground jazz club, Loft Jazz.

In 1981, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Benjy a grant for Original Design (Theater Artaud). In 1994, he won the Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement for Visual Design and Production Design (In Steel's Shadow, Zaccho Dance Theatre)

Benjy is an avid gardener, and for five decades has seeded, planted, and stewarded 45 species of palm trees from 25 countries in the urban compound of Project Artaud. He is a multi generational public gardener and the creator of San Francisco's Project Artaud Botanical Garden in the Mission District.