Ben is one of the leading accent/dialect and voice/text coaches in the US and UK with over thirty years experience as a coach, consultant, and teacher. He was born and grew up in London and has both US and UK citizenship, having lived for twenty one years in the United States

Now based in London, he has worked on over 135 theatre productions, including 20 on Broadway. He has spent many months and days on TV/Film sets, ADR studios, and many hours on Zoom/FaceTime etc. doing online coaching and audition prep. Earlier this year, Ben spent five months in Belfast working on a film for Universal Pictures

Ben has worked on films, TV shows and theatre pieces for US producers coaching many non-American actors (from countries like Australia, Britain, and New Zealand) to use American accents. He has coached literally hundreds of American (and other) actors to be British with some of them winning TONY awards for their performances.

He is experienced in coaching American dialects as well as accents from Africa, Europe, Australasia, and Asia to actors from all over the world.

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 Universal’s upcoming live action remake of “How to Train Your Dragon” and 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 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 a number of 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 with many 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, as well as Redlands for Chichester Festival Theatre, Now and Then for English Theatre Frankfurt, and The Third Man at Menier Chocolate Factory. He returned to New York to work on Oliver! at Encores at City Center,

Ben grew up in London and trained as a Voice, Text, and Accent/Dialect teacher and coach on the Voice Studies course 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 on the BFA Acting program in the School of Drama of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. He spent nine years at UNCSA teaching Accent/Dialect, Voice, and Text, and sight-reading 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 has taught classes and workshops in a number of educational institutions and theatres in Europe and the US, including three of the Hollywood Reporter’s top 5 World Drama Schools for the last 5 years: RADA, Juilliard, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Some of his other teaching includes Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and the Gaiety School of Acting (Dublin) His workshops include the "Old Vic – New Voices" workshop in NYC, Accent/Dialect Workshops for The Laura Henry Studio in LA, and Accent workshops for Two River Theatre and the Guthrie Theater.

He is working on the new MFA Linkater Voice course at Rose Bruford College in London working with student teachers how to approach the teaching and coaching of 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.