Ben Beckley

Height: 183 cm

From August 2013 through May 2014, Ben Beckley travelled to twenty-three U.S. cities with the first national tour of Peter and the Starcatcher.His other professional theater experience includes plays ...Show More

From August 2013 through May 2014, Ben Beckley travelled to twenty-three U.S. cities with the first national tour of Peter and the Starcatcher.His other professional theater experience includes plays at The Actors Company, New Georges, and Berkshire Theatre Group. Ben has developed new work for Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and The Public Theater, and with OBIE Award-winners Anne Kauffman, Rachel Chavkin, and Robert Wilson. His wide-ranging credits include experimental work and classical theater, one-man shows and site-specific installations, operettas, musicals, dance and even performance art.Ben served two terms as president of The Bats, the OBIE Award-winning resident company at The Flea Theater, where he collaborated with Christopher Durang, Adam Rapp, and Andre de Shields.From 2005 through 2009, he developed four projects with the experimental theater company Temporary Distortion, and performed with them throughout New York (P.S. 122, The Chocolate Factory, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, CUNY's Prelude Festival) and internationally (Mois Multi and Usine C - Canada, The Via/Exit Festivals - France, The Salzburg Festival - Austria).As a member of The Assembly, which The New York Times has called "a cutting-edge young theater collective," Ben has performed to sold-out houses in Krista Knight's Clementine and the Cyber Ducks, Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters, and the ensemble-devised HOME/SICK, a Critics' Pick in both Backstage and The New York Times.Ben studied for six years with Emmy Award-winner Gene Lasko and Drama Desk Award-winner Reed Birney. He has trained at The Singers Forum, The Actors Center, Fiasco Theater Company, and the People's Improv Theater, and in intensives with Kristen Linklater, Bill Irwin, and Kevin Spacey.Also an experienced commercial actor and voiceover artist, Ben has recorded spots for Ben and Jerry's, Expedia, and Verizon Wireless--among many others--and can be heard as Thomas Jefferson in the History Channel's 2005 documentary The Revolution.Ben Beckley grew up in Lexington, Virginia and graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in Dramatic Literature. He lives and works in New York City. Hide