Ben
Furey

Born and raised in London, Ben trained as an accent and voice coach at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He taught and coached first in Dublin and then moved to the US, working initially in Dallas and then in North Carolina. He moved to New York full-time in 2009 where he was based until the summer of 2019, coaching shows on and off-Broadway and across North America as well as working on a number of TV shows and films.

Ben is very experienced at helping American actors to be British, British (and others) to be American as well as coaching many American dialects and accents from Africa, Europe, Australasia, and Asia.

As a native Brit and a US/UK dual citizen, and having worked for three years in Ireland, Ben became the go-to coach in NYC for British and Irish dialects. He coached a number of TONY and other award-winning productions such as The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Matilda, INK, Billy Elliot, and worked with a number of actors on their TONY award winning performances.

In the US, his work included productions at major theatre companies off-Broadway including Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre, and Atlantic Theatre as well many regional theatres across the US including Hartford Stage and the Guthrie Theatre.

Ben has taught at many world-leading acting programmes including RADA, Juilliard, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin.

Among the actors Ben has worked with are: Simon Russell Beale, Brían F. O'Byrne, Anna Camp, Kim Cattrall, Bertie Carvel, Janie Dee, Dane DeHaan, Adam Driver, Gabriel Ebert, Mike Faist, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lucas Hedges, Jayne Houdyshell, Eddie Izzard, Gregory Jbara, Jake Lacy, Simon McBurney, John Noble, Nico Parker, Ciera Payton, Faith Prince, Alex Sharp, Carol Shelley, Morgan Thames, Lisa Tharps, Hugo Weaving, and Jennifer Westfeldt.

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