TROY BENJAMIN is a Los Angeles-based author, writer, producer, podcaster, and on-camera host. He’s been fortunate to collaborate on the most beloved properties in popular culture including Marvel, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Transformers, and more.
As an author, he’s detailed the technological advancements of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with The Wakanda Files, curated the insights of Marvel Studios' VisDev for How to Paint Characters the Marvel Studios Way, authored the behind the scenes artbooks Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Seasons One through Four Declassified, contributed to the exhaustive Guidebook to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, authored the Haynes Ghostbusters Ectomobile Owner's Workshop Manual, and has been a contributing author to the official websites for Disney, Warner Bros., MGM, and the COMET and CHARGE television networks.
As a studio production manager at Disney, he’s overseen the Disney+ series Earth to Ned, Becoming, Behind the Attraction, and A Celebration of the Music from Coco. As a producer, he co-produced documentaries debuting at Sundance and TIFF including, Studio 54, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, Citizen Jane, and Cleanin’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters. In addition, he’s produced marketing and DVD behind the scenes content on projects for Marvel, Disney, Lucasfilm, Universal, Fox, Paramount, Sony and Warner Bros. on properties including Star Wars, Transformers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Alien, Gravity, Halo, Peanuts, The X-Files, Deadpool and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Most recently he’s collaborated with Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters-centric production company Ghost Corps, and fulfilled a childhood-dream documenting the creation of new Proton Packs, Ectomobiles, and Terror Dogs for the new film Ghostbusters: Afterlife. As a fan; you might recognize him as an on-camera host for Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters-centric production company Ghost Corps, longtime webmaster of the fansite Ghostbusters HQ, or as the co-host of the Ghostbusters Interdimensional Crossrip, a weekly Ghostbusters fan podcast that he also produces.
