Training: Guildford School of Acting
BA Hons in Music from Leeds University
As an Actor: Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet (Whatsonstage Award Nomination Best Supporting Actor in a Musical), Noel Coward Theatre West End. Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (Olivier nomination best Company Performance) Comedy Theatre West End and Watermill Theatre, Newbury. Arnauld Du Tihl in Martin Guerre, Watermill Theatre. Judas Iscariot in Jesus Christ Superstar National and European Tour. Also for Andrew Lloyd Webber created the role of Del Copeland and went on to play John Kelly in The Beautiful Game, Cambridge Theatre. Detective Sergeant Trotter in The Mouse Trap, St Martins Theatre.
Edward Ireton in Two Cities Salisbury Playhouse for Howard Goodhall, Juan in Murderous Instincts, Savoy Theatre, Damien in Old Big 'Ead in the Spirit of the Man, Nottingham Playhouse & Tour, Sanders-Draper in The Good Intent, and Tom in The Glass Menagerie both at Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, Charles B Cochrane in Over my Shoulder, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Paris in Romeo and Juliet, ensemble in Oh, What a Lovely War and Amiens in As You Like It all at the Regents Park Open Air Theatre. Horatio in Hamlet & Friar Francis in Much Ado About Nothing Ludlow Festival, Inigo Jollifont in The Good Companions, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Dandini in Cinderella --The Panto with Soul, Theatre Clwyd, Balthazar in Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Exchange Manchester and Boy in Kiss the Sky, Shepherds Bush Empire.
Television & Film include: Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, Lt Walton in The Somme: From Defeat to Victory BBC, Crispin Yates in Trial & Retribution BBC, Neville in London Bridge Carlton Television & Guy in Bugs BBC. Demon in Gulliver's Travels with Jack Black.
Ben has Musically Directed countless shows all over the UK and abroad. He has also written music for plays at Nottingham Playhouse, Derby Playhouse, and arranged music for many other productions nationwide. He wrote a musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona which was performed in Seoul, South Korea. He also Musically Directed Little Shop of Horrors at Birmingham Rep Theatre. For the last 10 years Ben has been working as Musical Director for the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich on productions including Little Shop of Horrors, Mods and Rox, and many Rock'n'Roll Pantos.