ALEX MALLORY: DIRECTOR

The Pajama Game at Viterbo University

Performed by the BFA Theater and Music Theater students of the Conservatory for the Performing Arts
Scenic design by Yuri Okahana-Benson, lighting design by Patrick Strain, costume design by Jen Brown, audio engineering by Douglas Wilken
Photos by Dylan Overhouse Productions

The Vulnerable Year with The Metal Shop Performance Lab

Currently in Development
A participatory, virtual performance event that seeks to create community through the power of vulnerability.
Co-created by Grace Dolezal-Ng (performer), Alex Mallory (director) and Maria Simpkins (writer).
Click here to watch the prologue.

Ritual of Becoming with Poetic Theater Productions

A journey of radical self-acceptance and transformation through poetry and clay created by Alex Mallory, Jenny Pacanowski and Maria L. Salazar.
commissioned for Rites of Passage, part of the 2021 Poetic License Festival
Aired as part of the 2021 Austin Veteran Arts Festival through RokuTV
Lighting design by Christina Tang, projection design by Lisa Renkel and Brian Pacelli, sound design by Ray Archie
Watch video here

Schiller's Mary Stuart at Northwestern University

in a version by Peter Oswald
Featuring a cast of women and transgender actors, the production aimed to empower the performers through authenticity and authorship fostered in the rehearsal process and on stage.
Watch a 2-minute video featuring outtakes of exploratory work from the rehearsal process here
Lighting design by Gabrielle Strong, scenic design by Scott Penner, costume design by Drina Krlic, sound design by Sarah Espinoza
Photos by Justin Barbin Photography

Spring Awakening at Northwestern University

an original translation by Alex Mallory from Frank Wedekind's Frühlings Erwachen
This production aimed to find the humor and urgency of the original text in its indictment of society for its role in the moral and sexual education of teenagers. The ensemble occupied the rear of the ¾ thrust stage to mirror the audience, as though completing the arena, and draw the audience’s attention to their act of witnessing.
Lighting design by Matt Sharp, scenic design by Woongjin Oh, costume design by Stephanie Ross, sound design by Grover Hollway
Photos by Justin Barbin Photography

The Telling Project

Local military veterans & family members rehearse & perform their own stories for their communities. Local producing partners include the Naomi Ruth Cohen Institute at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Piven Theatre, The Medicine and the Muse Program at Stanford University, Bay Street Theatre, Southampton Arts Center, the Joseph J Theinert Foundation, and the Veteran Artist Program. For more about The Telling Project, click here

In The Wake with The Comrades at Greenhouse Theater Center

written by Lisa Kron
Lighting design by Nicholas Coso, scenic design by Rachel Rauscher, projections design by G. Max Maxin IV, costume design by Alycia Matz, sound design by Becca Venable
Photos by Paul Goyette

I Run With You at the Crisis Art Festival in Arezzo, Italy

written and performed by Anna/Kate
A theatrical song cycle about queer love, grief, and depression.
Listen to Anna/Kate's album EP here

Dijla Wal Furat: Between the Tigris and the Euphrates with Poetic Theater Productions

written by Maurice Decaul
Lighting Design by Derek Miller, Costume Design by Liene Dobraja, Sound Design by Jamie A. Diaz, Properties Design by Travis Bell, Set Design by Paul DePoo III, Technical Direction by Ori Bensimhon, Assistant Direction by Jessica Barnhill
Photos by Bjorn Bolinder

Writopia Worldwide Plays Festival

Click the links for video
Painting a Wife in Watercolor by Lizzie McCord
Numb by Eleanor Mammen
March 21st by Kai Williams
Tales of the Fitzwilliams by Davis, Davis, Romeo and Romeo
The Epic Of by Rachel Calnek-Sugin

Goliath with Poetic Theater Productions at Wild Project

written by Takeo Rivera
featuring Samantha Cooper, Dontonio Demarco, Natalia Duong, Edgar Eguia, Kenneth Heaton, Monique Paige and Nabil Viñas
lighting design by Brad Peterson, stage managed by Sarah Livant
Photos by Hunter Canning and Kate Hess