Born and raised in London, Ben holds US and UK passports. He has helped hundreds of American actors (and others) to sound British, as well as British actors (and others) to sound American, as well as coaching many other accents from all over the world.
He trained on the Voice Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama and, after graduating, taught and coached in Dublin for three years before moving to the US where he lived for over 20 years. Based in New York from 2009 until 2019, Ben became the go-to coach in the city for British and Irish accents. He is now based in the UK.
As well as working with accent/dialect, Ben also works as a performance/dialogue coach for Film and TV.
Ben’s major film and television credits include Star Wars: Starfighter, How to Train Your Dragon (Live Action), Lost City of Z, Elementary (3 seasons), The Waysiders, Neuromancer, Hunters, Blindspot and Vine Talk. As well as coaching accent/dialect, Ben also works as a performance/dialogue coach for TV and Film.
Equally at home as a coach in theatre, he has worked on over 140 professional productions. On Broadway, he coached both plays and musicals including The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Matilda, INK, and Billy Elliot, working with actors in those shows on their TONY award-winning performances. Other theatre credits include productions in the West End and regionally as well major companies in New York and throughout North America.
Teaching includes RADA, Juilliard, UNC School of the Arts, and the Gaiety School of Acting (Dublin).
Among the actors Ben has worked with are: Jelani Alladin, Michael Aronov, Simon Russell Beale, Brían F. O'Byrne, Anna Camp, Kim Cattrall, Bertie Carvel, Victoria Clark, Janie Dee, Dane DeHaan, Adam Driver, Gabriel Ebert, Mike Faist, Betty Gilpin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lucas Hedges, Jayne Houdyshell, Suzy Eddie Izzard, Gregory Jbara, Jake Lacy, Simon McBurney, Billy Magnussen, Cristin Milioti, John Noble, Ciera Payton, Faith Prince, Alex Sharp, Carol Shelley, Morgan Thames, and Hugo Weaving.
Ben talks about his process here:- https://www.hartfordstage.org/stagenotes/lesson-from-aloes/ben-furey/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2405006/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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