January 9, 2025
Ben appeared at The Atlantic opposite Connie Shulman (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK), Mia Katigbak (INFINITE LIFE), Haley Wong (THE WELKIN), Nicole Rodenburg (THE ANTIPODES), and JESSICA FREY (IN CORPO) in a workshop of Isabelle Barbier’s HAGS, dir. Miranda Haymon.
The play is a feminist reworking of and response to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible,
and Ben played all the male roles: John Proctor, Reverend Parris, George Burroughs, and others.
Ben’s episode of
American Horror Story
is now available on FX and Hulu.
Ben plays the DP of Rosemary’s Baby
in “Little Gold Man” (Season 12, Episode 8)
The Bad Infinity wins a Telly Award!
Directed by Graham Sack and based on an experimental play by the legendary Mac Wellman, the film features a crackerjack ensemble cast, including Ben.
May 14, 2024
a closed reading of a
New Musical
written by Matthew Paul Olmos,
inspired and featuring the music of War.
angel’s share
April 25-27, 2024
Ben played a grieving father
in this spectacular new play by dominic finocchiaro,
dir. Jess Chayes
March 14, 2024
Ben played a troubled journalist and a sociopathic solider
in a reading of SNOWDAY, a new screenplay by JOEY ROTTER.
The cast included NEAL LERNER (AMERICAN FICTION)
and ADINAH ALEXANDER (KINKY BOOTS).
SPAIN
November/December 2023
SPAIN, a world premiere by JEN SILVERMAN
(dir. TYNE RAFAELI) at 2nd Stage.
Ben performed as Ernest Hemingway
(one of three roles he understudied)
opposite MARIN IRELAND and ANDREW BURNAP.
IN CORPO
June 2023
Ben’s Off-Broadway writing debut
The Assembly’s electro-folk-funk musical IN CORPO
co-produced with Dutch Kills
at Theatre Row.
by Ben Beckley & Nate Weida
Music by Nate Weida
Directed by Jess Chayes
Ben’s episode of NEW AMSTERDAM
HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER (Season 5, Episode 2)
is now available on NBC and Peacock.
January 18-January 21, 2023
Ben played self-satisfied office dandy
ARMAND PIZELLE WAYLAND
in Clubbed Thumb’s WINTERWORKS.
Ben can be heard as NESTOR and THE CALEDONIAN BOAR
in The TEAM’s LIVE FROM MOUNT OLYMPUS,
created by Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin
and starring Tony Award-winner André de Shields as HERMES.
Ben appears in the first season of POKER FACE
- created by Rian Johnson (GLASS ONION) -
opposite Natasha Lyonne.
Ben in Shonda Rhimes' Inventing Anna (Netflix)
Nov-Dec 2021
Ben appeared
as Jacob Marley
opposite Francois Battiste
in the Broadway production of
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
at San Francisco’s
Golden Gate Theater
Running mid-November through late December 2021,
the production also featured 2024 Tony nominee Amber Iman and Broadway legend Nancy Opel
(who premiered both Evita and Sunday in the Park with George).
KlaxAlterian Sequester - co-conceived, written by, and starring Ben -
made waves at the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
“★★★★ It turns you inward and makes the familiar strange.”
- The Scotsman
”It makes you consider more closely everyday things you just take for granted and barely notice… it makes you look at your own home and yourself in the mirror entirely differently. It makes you surprise yourself.”
- Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor
The whole unique time-traveling adventure is available here.
In the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic,
Ben was featured three times in The New York Times:
KlaxAlterian Sequester, written/performed by Ben, “makes the familiar strange…. I didn’t think that after this many months indoors my tiny apartment could ever seem foreign. But for that hour it did. Even the simple act of sipping a glass of water felt weird and charged.” (review by Alexis Soloski)
In Crush, “Beckley’s suave voice work, paired with the virtual-reality puppetry Knight and Brinegar developed to capture Beckley’s movements, creates the ultimate New York character.” (review by Jose Solís)
“Ben Beckley’s Outside Time Without Extension gives us the measure of two lovers ([Ali] Ahn and [William Jackson] Harper)… allotting one minute of its length to each 10 years of their lives.
…And when Ahn and Harper later move into a single frame (apparently, they are quarantining together) the shock of intimacy that made Coward so modern is deftly recreated. How long since we’ve seen a stage kiss?” (review by Jesse Green)
