Betsey Beckman is a freelance liturgical dancer, choreographer, movement therapist, author and storyteller whose home base is Seattle. Renowned for her passion and expertise in liturgical dance, you may know Betsey from her earlier years of "fooling around" as founding member of the Fountain Square Fools, Portable Theatre Proclaiming Good News from Cincinnati, Ohio.

She is now a solo artist featured at ministry conferences nationwide, including repeated appearances at National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM) conventions, LA Religious Education Congresses, and Big Island (Hawai'i) Liturgical Arts Conferences to name a few. Her many dance/dramas tell the stories of Mary Magdalene, the Woman at the Well, Miriam, Mary, and other women of the Bible. Her stories of the latter two are told on her first video release The Dancing Word: Miriam and Mary.

Betsey delights in bringing Scripture to life and in leading others in liberating the body and healing the soul. She has a Masters in Ministry, and in addition to her audio-cassettes on movement and meditation, she is co-author of A Retreat with Our Lady, Dominic and Ignatius: The Body at Prayer, published by St. Anthony Messenger Press. Betsey, a parishioner at St. Patrick Parish in Seattle, lives with her husband Charlie and nine-year-old son Chaz in Lynnwood, Washington.