Adam Alexander

Adam Alexander is one of my most frequent collaborators and favourite creative colleagues. Always willing to brainstorm an idea into production, I find Adam thinks creative projects through not only from the angles of producer, director, and performer, but most importantly from the compassionate angle of an educator. His first instinct is always to support, care, and guide the next generation of young artists.

Below you will find photos from when Adam and I collaborated for the Theatre Project Week: Romeo and Juliet, for the secondary school in Wila, Switzerland. Adam instructed one of the 5 interest groups in stage combat and brought the fight choreography from the musical West Side Story to life for the students.

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Adam Alexander has worked internationally as a performer, movement instructor and fight director, and stage director in theater and opera. Before relocating to France from his hometown of New York City, Adam was on faculty at The Actors Studio Drama School and a member of the Grammy nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street.     

A versatile artist, Mr. Alexander has performed in multiple classical and musical theatre productions at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Center and New York City Opera. These productions include the Emmy nominated Live from Lincoln Center Carousel, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story Suite, and more than 250 appearances with the Philharmonic as a chorister and soloist under the batons of Lorin Maazel, Alan Gilbert, Valery Gergiev, Emmanuel Plasson, Rob Berman, and Rob Fisher. Adam has enjoyed performing in New York and regional theaters in the US with some of his favorite roles being, The Baker, in Sondheim’s Into the Woods, Mercutio, in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Puck in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Njegus in Léhar’s The Merry Widow. Adam was a member of the Choir of Trinity Wall Street for five years during which time he performed all of Bach’s cantatas and the entire choral works of Poulenc and Stravinsky as well as performing on the choir’s Grammy nominated recording of Handel’s Israel in Egypt. You can also hear Adam on recordings of Rebecca with New World Records and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Allegro With Sony. He has written and performed two cabaret shows in New York City and was invited to perform at the New York Cabaret Convention held by the Mabel Mercer Foundation.

While at The Actor’s Studio Drama School, Adam created curriculum and taught movement and stage combat. He has choreographed and created movement sequences for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Regional productions for theatre, film, musical theatre, and opera including New York City Opera, The Pearl, American Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, and Des Moines Metro Opera. Adam taught stage combat at the American Music and Dramatic Academy for more than ten years and has served as guest faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, The Ohio State University, and SUNY Stony Brook.

Since moving to France, Adam has continued his varied artistic interests, performing the role of Baker in a new production of Into the Woods with La Clefs du Chant, singing in the ensemble of director Thomas Jolly’s Fantasio by Offenbach, and appearing regularly with the choruses of Les Metaboles and the American Cathedral. With American Musical Theatre Live in Paris (AMT Live) he has performed and taught as well as created and directed a cabaret show entitled Say Magnifique. He also directed an AMT Live production of Crossroads as part of the Paris Fringe Festival. Adam is a professor at Cours Florent, where he teaches Acting and Physical Theatre and the schools first classes in Stage Combat and Theatrical Violence.

Adam holds degrees from Boston University, the Manhattan School of Music, and is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors, the Association of Theater Movement Educators, the American Guild of Musical Artists, and Actors Equity Association.