Alex was born in Juneau, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ and grew up attending Perseverance, Juneau Lyric Opera,
and Theatre in the Rough productions. In high school, Anita Maynard-Losh was in town
and her then-husband, Toby Clark, was aligning with gifted theatre teacher Bethany
Bereman and great JDHS administrators to start a golden age of Juneau high school
productions. From full stage musicals like Kiss Me Kate, Damn Yankees, and The King and I, to complicated plays like Noises Off, alongside trips with the DDF team, Alex’s early youth education was full of theatrical
opportunities and ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñn intersections.
After high school, Alex attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, graduating with
a Bachelor’s in Arts after writing a thesis on Kama Ginkas, an Eastern European theatre
artist who created physical metaphors through repetition inside imaginative stagings
and designs. During this time, Alex also participated in the Eugene O’Neill NTI/MXT
Semester Abroad in Moscow, Russia. In college, xe began studying dance and African-American
literature, broadening xeir perceptions and beginning the acknowledgement of historical
trauma, grounded in both the internal self and the body politic.
Professionally, Alex worked across the lower 48 before being hired by Portland-based
performance troupe tEEth as their Technical Director and Lighting Designer. tEEth
had just been chosen to open and administer a dance studio in Portland. Xe built the
studio out from bare lighting pipes and dance floor to a complete black box theater
that is still a thriving arts space in Portland, now called New Expressive Works.
Simultaneously, xe toured two evening-length dance pieces, Home Made and make/believe,
across the western United States, including presentations by Portland’s White Bird
Dance, Seattle’s On the Boards, and the Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas.
Since returning to ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ and moving to Fairbanks, Alex has been a lighting designer,
master carpenter, actor, dancer, and puppeteer. He is the Technical Director of the
Dance Theatre Fairbanks and is active with local metropolitan planning organizations.
“It’s a pleasure and honor to have a chance to give back some of the theatrical gifts
I’ve been given.â€