Ben has been acting since he was a child. He did musical theater for 15 years before transitioning into film and television. While attending college as a theater major at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, he came across a flyer for a seminar about how to break into film and television. Ben went to the seminar and a week later landed a nice feature on the episode "Killzone" for the first season of CSI Miami. Since then Ben has been pursuing film and television and recently moved outside Portland Oregon. Ben is an inventor and received an inventing scholarship to Florida Atlantic University from the Inventing Society of South Florida. As well as acting and inventing, Ben is also enjoys singing, dancing, writing and stand-up comedy. Although having done film and television projects for many years it wasn't until 2006 when he was a featured contestant on American Idol with his Cosmic Coaster invention that he gained much notoriety. That led to Ben being interviewed and featured in People Magazine and Rolling Stone Magazine. He then went on to compete on Season 2 of American Inventor making it one round from the semi-finals.As for recent projects in 2013 he was featured alongside Matthew Perry as a meditation classmate in the episode "Go Deep" on the show Go On which aired on NBC. In 2016 Ben made a cameo playing himself as a celebrity judge on the comedy feature film Ugly Shoes. In February 2017 Ben starred as Jon Brown in the first episode called "Little Girl Lost" in the revamping of the Cold Case Files series on A&E. In 2016 he was listed #29 on IMDB's list of famous faces on Dexter season #1.He will be playing Stanley Sumpter in the new thriller '57 Star Chief which will begin filming soon. In 2018 he will be starring as General Garland in an episode of the adventure series King of the Golden Sun. Show less «