Ben Furey

Teaches at Linklater Center

Ben is an Accent, Voice, and Text coach from London who has been working in the US since 1998. He has been the Dialect Coach for Billy Elliot: the Musical in the US since it began in New York in 2008 and has worked on all five North American productions and been resident coach for four of them. Additional Broadway credits: Monty Python’s Spamalot, Catch Me If You Can, and Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark. National Tours include Monty Python’s Spamalot, West Side Story, and 101 Dalmations. Off-Broadway: That Fact (MTC), Gabriel and The New York Idea (Atlantic Theatre Company), The Language Archive (Roundabout). Regional and International work includes productions at: The Guthrie Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, The Gate Theatre (Dublin, Ireland), Dallas Theater Center, and Colorado and North Carolina Shakespeare Festivals. Film Credits: Treasure Buddies, Eyeborgs, Pete’s Meteor, The Key Man. Some of the actors Ben has worked with include: Hugo Weaving, Simon Russell Beale, Eddie Izard, Alfred Molina, Jayne Houdyshell, Greg Jbara, Carol Shelly, and Adrian Paul.