Acting with Alexander C.

Various Theater Companies Nationally

Alex has staged works across the country, from New York to Wisconsin, with an emphasis on classical work, winning awards for directing from both the Baltimore Playwrights Festival and Broadwayworld.com. With the Maryland Shakespeare Festival for many years, he directed “Much Ado About Nothing”, “The Tempest” and “Measure for Measure” as well as their “Shakespeare Alive!” yearly tour which was seen by over 25,000 middle and high school students in the greater DC area. Other highlights: “A Tuna Christmas” at Virginia’s Court Street Theatre, “The Taming of the Shrew” (Festival 59, Princeton, Illinois) as well as “A Lie of the Mind” and “Much Ado About Nothing” at Stella Adler Studios, NYC. Additionally, Alex has directed several Youth Theater productions (self devised work such as FAIRY TALES IN 'DA HOOD, a retelling of Grimm's Fairy Tales in the Baltimore ghetto) and is the Artistic Director of Raised Spirits Theater Company, which produced the first staging of the First Quarto version of “The Chronicle Historie of Henry V” in 400 years as well as “The Tragedy of Hamlet”. He holds an M.Litt. and MFA in Elizabethan and Renaissance Literature in Performance with a concentration in Directing from Mary Baldwin College.

Many Different Projects Over The Last Thirty Years

Roles include playing real life fireman Dan Potter who survived the collapse of both World Trade Towers while searching for his wife in the Emmy award winning docudrama Countdown to Ground Zero and the Priest in Love Among The Shadows, directed by Angele Cooper. Always active, Alex has shot principal roles in the SAG indies Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always directed by Eliza Hittman which is currently receiving excellent critical notice and The Atlantic City Story opposite acclaimed actress Jessica Hecht.

Wide Variety of Theaters Over The Last Thirty Years

Most recently appeared in the world premiere production of BACK CHANNEL at The Theater Project as Alexander Feklisov, the real life Russian spy who helped resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis. Off-Broadway he appears at Mirror Rep (2 seasons, six plays with Geraldine Page & F. Murray Abraham). Regional; Hamlet, The Tempest, Coriolanus, Henry VI parts 1 & 2, Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III, among many others. Favorite classical roles include Macbeth, Caliban, and Claudius.

SUNY/Empire State College

Mary Baldwin College

Mary Baldwin College

Baltimore Playwrights Festival

BROADWAYWORLD.COM

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