# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-brantley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:48:52.672Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-brantley"
name: "Ben Brantley"
slug: "ben-brantley"
description: "Benjamin D. Brantley is an American theater critic, journalist, editor, publisher, and writer. He served as the chief theater critic for The New York Times from 1996 to 2017, and as co-chief theater critic from 2017 to 2020."
tagline: "American journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1954-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.75
  momentum:             4.578237950919233
  historical:           5.490174666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Brantley"
    title: "Ben Brantley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "بين برانتلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "بين برانتلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Brantley"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "بن برنتلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Brantley"
    title: "Ben Brantley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4885332"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump