Ben Jonson may be the most famous person to use the shortened version of his given name professionally. It is for hackneyed notes and anecdotes like these that the playwright, poet, and actor is now primarily known.

Evidently, it is really difficult to be a dramatist and poet if you lived

FILM. VIDEO. THEATER. Vivian Giourousis (VIV G) is a Filmmaker and Performing Arts educator. She works with traditional narrative cinema as well as experimental genres. VIV G is highly attuned to the visual grammar of filmmaking, and acutely aware of gesture and movement inherent in the human aspe