ALEXANDRA ARON
director/producer
Alex is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of the Remote Theater Project bringing theater artists from different cultural backgrounds into dialogue to create new work (remotetheaterproject.com). Based in New York City, Alex has directed in the US and internationally: Leslie Epstein’s King of the Jews at HERE Arts starring Richard Topol, A Night in the Old Marketplace (Frank London/ Glen Berger) at MASS MoCA and São Paulo, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Toronto, Milan, New York City, Naked Old Man by Murray Schisgal starring David Margulies (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Imagining Madoff by Deb Margolin (Theater J, DC); Three Seconds in the Key by Deb Margolin (New Georges, NYC). Salomé: Woman of Valor, Adeena Karasick/ Frank London (Vancouver, Toronto, ART’s Oberon Theater). She directed a short film Two Altars and a Cave starring Lois Smith.
Alex has developed plays with Palestinian and Jewish theater artists and has directed in Ramallah and Jerusalem. She commissioned and produced GREY ROCK by Amir Nizar Zuabi at La MaMa which toured to Melbourne and Adelaide Festivals, Kennedy Center, Guthrie Theater Under the Radar Festival. Alex is co-producing LINES, an international collaboration with Fidaa Zidan (Palestine), John Rwothomack(Uganda/UK, Junaid Sarieddeen (Lebanon) which will premiere at Sheffield Theatre, UK and open at LaMaMa in April.
A life-long arts educator, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant to Argentina in 2005-2006, where she taught arts educators and theater practitioners in Buenos Aires. She has worked throughout the NYC school system making plays with students and at Avenues: The World School, developing their drama program.
As Managing Director for Soundbrush Records, Alex produced over 40 music recordings, dozens of concerts, and numerous videos, including Latin Grammy award-winning Amor por el Tango and Grammy award-nominated Piazzola in Brooklyn.
She is an affiliated artist of New Georges Theater, and an alumna of the Actor’s Studio Playwrights and Directors Forum, Lincoln Center Directing Lab, and Women’s Project Directors Forum. Alex is a graduate of Wesleyan University.
