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).
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.
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)