Ben’s episode of AMERICAN HORROR STORY
Little Gold Man (Season 12, Episode 8)
is now available on FX and Hulu.
March 14, 2024
Ben played an investigative journalist and a sociopathic paramilitary op in a reading of SNOWDAY, a new screenplay by JOEY ROTTER.
The cast included NEAL LERNER (AMERICAN FICTION)
and ADINAH ALEXANDER (KINKY BOOTS).
November/December 2023
SPAIN, a world premiere by JEN SILVERMAN
(dir. TYNE RAFAELI) at 2nd Stage.
Ben u/s three roles and performed as Ernest Hemingway,
opposite MARIN IRELAND (HOMELAND)
and Tony-winner ANDREW BURNAP.
Ben Beckley in IN CORPO at Theatre Row.
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.
From 1/18-1/21, Ben is performing
as the self-satisfied office dandy ARMAND PIZELLE WAYLAND
in Clubbed Thumb’s WINTERWORKS.
Ben can be heard as NESTOR and THE CALEDONIAN BOAR
in an upcoming episode of 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 will appear in the first season of POKER FACE
- created by Rian Johnson (GLASS ONION) -
opposite Natasha Lyonne.
Ben in Inventing Anna
Ben appears in episode four
of Shonda Rhimes' hit show INVENTING ANNA,
available on Netflix.
Ben Beckley and Francois Battiste in A CHRISTMAS CAROL, photo by Joan Marcus
In November and December, Ben recently appeared as MARLEY/FATHER
in the Broadway production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL
at The Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco.
The cast also included Nancy Opel (SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE),
Amber Iman (HAMILTON, first national tour),
and Francois Battiste (RAISIN IN THE SUN).
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)
