Alex Alpharaoh

Alex Alpharaoh is a Guatemalan born actor, writer, poet, solo performer, and teaching artist from Los Angeles. He is a 2022 Disruptors TV Writers Fellow, and a 2023 NEXT Commissions fellow for Antaeus Theatre Company. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award for Solo performance as well as the recipient of a Stage Raw award for Writing + performance for WET: A DACAmented Journey, a story about what it means to be an American in every sense of the word except on paper. Alpharaoh’s plays have been produced and workshopped throughout the country. Some of his plays include Don’t Talk About It, SP!T About It, Why Won’t You Remember?, Vile-Let, Freddy Fender’s Last Concert, and O-Dogg: An Angeleno Take on Othello. As a formerly undocumented citizen, Alpharaoh believes in the transformative power of sharing one’s truth and vulnerability, especially in the face of danger. His writing reflects the struggles of the common person, and is often inspired by the works of Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare, August Wilson, Octavio Solis, Luis Alfaro, Anna Deavere Smith, John Leguizamo, Roger Guenveur Smith, and Stephen Adly Guirgis, to name a few. Alex’s stories, poems, and spoken word narratives address issues pertaining to race, class, immigration, assimilation, family, love, and Los Angeles.