Alexander Greenfield is an Atlanta-raised, New York-based professional stage director. This past season, he directed THE WHIPPING MAN by Matthew Lopez at the Tony-winning Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Upcoming: Associate Director of OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, a new Broadway play by Tony & Academy Award-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley at the Manhattan Theatre Club & THE CITY OF CONVERSATION by Anthony Giardina at Lincoln Center Theater. Directing credits include: HAPPY DAYS by Samuel Beckett, SWEENEY TODD (Fabrefaction Theatre in Atlanta, GA—Suzi Bass Award Nomination for Outstanding Director; Seven 2012 Atlanta Theater Fan Awards), A NUMBER by Caryl Churchill, and THE BONE VIOLIN by Doug Wright. Recent staged readings include: REPORTING LIVE at NYMF starring Kate Shindle, Alex Brightman, and Theresa McCarthy & KIND SOULS, a new play by Pulitzer Prize-nominee Tom Diggs.
Alexander is currently Associate Director to Tony-winning director, Doug Hughes (DOUBT). Hughes has called Alex: "A prodigy; a great thinker with great heart who is wonderfully capable of translating bold ideas into richly entertaining and memorable theater." For over three years, Alex has worked extensively on Broadway and overseas with such actors as Bobby Cannavale, Boyd Gaines, Richard Thomas, Rosemary Harris, Jim Dale, Cherry Jones, Sally Hawkins, Denis O’Hare, Brendan Fraser, Jim Belushi, Nina Arianda, and Robert Sean Leonard. Broadway credits include: THE BIG KNIFE, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, THE ROAD TO MECCA (dir. Gordon Edelstein), BORN YESTERDAY, ELLING, & MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION. Other Assistant Directing credits include: GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS at the renowned Gate Theatre in Dublin, Ireland and the recent Off-Broadway production of MY NAME IS ASHER LEV.
Alexander has directed at the Seven Devils Playwriting Conference and has conducted drama therapy workshops for teenagers in crisis at Cedar Ridge Academy in Roosevelt, UT. In 2007, he was appointed as an Artistic Associate at 7 Stages Theatre in Atlanta, GA. At 7 Stages he worked alongside current Artistic Director, Heidi Howard, to create the devised theatre training program: Absolute STEP and was a core collaborator on the resulting workshop of THE BANANA RAPTURE OF 2012.
Alexander holds a B.F.A. with honors in Theatre from NYU: Tisch School of the Arts and is a proud member of SDC, the theatrical labor union for professional stage Directors and Choreographers.
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