Biography

Ben has always loved acting and performance, but the need and desire to pursue performing as a profession did not come full-circle until his late teens. He had always been singing along with TV shows, Disney movies, cassettes, and CD’s when he was young, as well as singing in choirs at church and at school for most of his life, but over the years his voice matured and became stronger through constant practice, as well as auditioning and performing in as many plays and musicals as he possibly could. Once he started performing in public theatre, the fire inside was ignited, and Ben has never been the same since.

Ben is a proud graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy of New York City, graduating with a great GPA in the spring of ’06. He truly believes that he worked and trained with some of the most gifted and dedicated teachers and performers in the country, soaking up as much experience and advice as he could. He also believes that there was nothing more he could have done to make his experience at AMDA a better one. It was the time of his life, and has led him on to bigger and better things, both professionally and in his personal life.

Going through college, performing in various professional theatre companies, industrials, commercials, and films have taught Ben many things: not only to be hard working, persistent, and unrelenting in his dreams of making a living from acting and performing, but also to serve his God, honor his family name, and to stay true to the ones he loves and to build solid foundations in all of the relationships and friendships in his life. It also taught him that this journey requires one to be physically, mentally, and spiritually fit to handle any material given to him. But most importantly, to never lose sight of why he got into acting in the first place: because he loves it with an inexplicable passion, and because he doesn’t know how NOT to pursue it. He looks forward to the life lessons and experiences ahead, both good and bad, because they will shape him and mold him into the man, and the actor, that he longs to be.

“I hope I will always be able to enrich people’s lives through acting and singing, and possibly make them think about or feel something they never expected to before they sat down in their seat. I have felt such things when I have gone to the theatre or to see a movie, and I long to try to give those experiences back to others. I truly believe that is my calling in life, and the reason that God has placed me here. I hope to always maintain the passion and the ambition that I have for what I do. “The rest…” as Hamlet said, “…is silence.”