Ben Rimalower is the author and star of the long-running, internationally acclaimed solo plays Bad with Money (The Advocate’s #1 of 2014) and Patti Issues (New York Times Critics Pick, M.A.C. and Bistro Awards), available as a double audiobook on iTunes, Audible, and Amazon. He is a frequent contributor to Vulture, Out, The Huffington Post, and Time Out New York, with regular columns at Playbill, BroadwayWorld, and Decider. Ben is recognizable around the world for his three seasons and counting on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City as the writer-director of LuAnn de Lesseps’s record-breaking cross-country cabaret sensation, Countess And Friends. He also co-wrote de Lesseps’s hit single, “Feelin’ Jovani.” Ben directed Snoopy! (Symphony Space, starring Tony winners Sutton Foster and Christiane Borle), the Off-Broadway plays Joy (Actors Playhouse) and The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero (Daryl Roth/DR2 Theatre, starring Gillian Jacobs and Anna Chlumsky), and a slew of solo shows, most notably conceiving and directing Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches and subsequently producing Ghostlight Records’ Patti LuPone at Les Mouches. Follow @benrimalower on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube and visit benrimalower.com.