Ben has been one of the leading accent/dialect and voice/text coaches in the US with over twenty eight years experience as a coach, consultant, and teacher.

Now based in both London and the US, he has worked on over 130 theatre productions, including 20 on Broadway. He has spent many days on TV/Film sets, in ADR studios, and many hours on Skype/FaceTime/Zoom doing production, online coaching, audition prep and in rehearsals. Ben is currently working on a major feature film to be released in 2025.

Ben has coached a number of  TONY and other award winning productions, including Billy Elliot, INK, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Matilda, The Last Ship, and the immersive Sweeney Todd.  He has worked with seven actors on their TONY award winning performances, including Greg Jbara, Gabriel Ebert, Michael Aronov, Alex Sharp, as well as the three original “Billy Elliots”. He was the accent coach for the four Matildas who won special TONY Awards for Excellence and many other actors on their off-Broadway and regional award winning roles. 

Since his return to London, Ben has coached shows like the world premiere of Brokeback Mountain in the West End, Oliver! at Encores at City Center in New York, Now and Then for English Theatre Frankfurt, and The Third Man at Menier Chocolate Factory.

Ben was born and grew up in London and trained as a Voice, Text, and Accent/Dialect teacher and coach on the world-renowned Voice Studies program at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After graduating, Ben moved to Dublin, Ireland where he taught at Joe Dowling’s Gaiety School of Acting and coached productions at the Gate Theatre and elsewhere for three years. He then moved to the US where he began teaching and coaching, initially at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, and then at the world-ranked BFA Acting program in the School of Drama of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem where he spent nine years teaching Accent/Dialect, Voice, and Text amongst other things. 

In 2008, he began working on Billy Elliot on Broadway and other shows on and off Broadway and moved to New York to work full-time as a freelance coach in 2009 where he was based until the summer of 2019.

His work off-Broadway included many productions at organisations such as Manhattan Theatre Club and Roundabout Theatre. Ben worked at a number of regional theatres including a number of shows at Hartford Stage and Palm Beach Dramaworks and rehearsed and maintained a number of National Tours including A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Curious Incident, Billy Elliot, Mamma Mia, and Spamlot.

Ben's work on TV and Film has covered TV shows such as Elementary, Blindspot, Hunters, and Tales of the City and on films like James Gray’s The Lost City of Z. Ben has been dialect consultant on a number of projects for actors including John Noble and Brían F. O’Byrne.

He is currently working on a movie for a major film studio.

As a native Brit and dual citizen (US/UK) and having worked for a number of years in Ireland, Ben became the go-to coach in NYC for British and Irish dialects. In addition, he has coached a lot of American dialects as well accents from Africa, Europe, Australasia, and Asia.

Ben has taught classes and workshops in a number of educational institutions and theatres in Europe and the US, including RADA, Juilliard, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Southern Methodist University, the Gaiety School of Acting (Dublin), "Old Vic – New Voices" workshops in NYC, Two River Theatre, and the Guthrie Theater.

He is teaching on the new MFA Linkater Voice course at Rose Bruford College teaching student teachers how to approach teaching and coaching Accent and Dialect.

In 2018, Ben coached a production of A Lesson From Aloes directed by Darko Tresnjak at Hartford Stage. There was an interview with Ben in the production Playbill.  Read it here.