Ben Beckley is a veteran stage actor and voiceover artist.  He served two terms as president of the Bats, the OBIE Award-winning resident company at The Flea Theater, where he premiered work with Christopher Durang, Adam Rapp, Blair Brown, Andre de Shields, and Jim Simpson.  He also appeared in Peculiar Works Project's OFF Stage: The West Village Fragments, for which the producers were awarded a special OBIE Award.  Ben has developed several projects with The Assembly Theater Company, with whom he's an associate member.  Other New York credits include Pulitzer Prize-nominated dramas, Shakespearean operas and award-winning films.

From 2005 through 2009, Ben collaborated on four projects with the experimental theater collective Temporary Distortion, with whom he performed at several major downtown venues (P.S. 122, The Chocolate Factory, The Ontological Hysteric Theater, CUNY's Prelude Festival) and toured internationally (Mois Multi and Usine C - Canada, Via/Exit Festival - France, Young Directors Festival - Austria).

As a commercial actor and voiceover artist, he has recorded spots for Ben and Jerry's, Dunkin' Donuts, Virginia Lottery, and Verizon Wireless, among others.  He can also be heard as the voice of Thomas Jefferson in the History Channel's 2005 documentary The Revolution.

A native of southern Virginia, Ben is a graduate of Princeton University.

He lives and works in New York City.