ALEXANDER SULEN GEDEON is a multidisciplinary artist and critically acclaimed director of opera and concert-theater based in New York City. Embracing a multitude of forms and genres, his work has been called “provocative, visually stunning” and “a perfect, experimental approach to opera”; his production of Everything Rises at BAM’S Next Wave Festival was a New York Times Critic’s Pick.
Directing highlights include: John Cage’s Apartment House 1776 (Detroit Opera), featured in the New York Times and NPR’s All Things Considered; two Rolling Stone video premieres for Grammy-winning vocalist Judith Hill; the revival of Yuval Sharon’s The Comet / Poppea (Yale Repertory Theater); co-directing, with Sharon, Viktor Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Miami New World Symphony) and the workshop of This Ghost of Slavery (National Museum of African American History), a workshop written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith; Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage (REDCAT); La tragèdie de Carmen (San Diego Opera); and Sanctuaries, of which Oregon Artswatch wrote: “if one of art’s essential fronts is to make us feel and to understand others on a deep, indescribable level, then Sanctuaries succeeds.”
As a bandleader and theater artist, he has presented work at Joe’s Pub (New York), REDCAT and The Ford Theater (Los Angeles). He previously led the musical group Trick & the Heartstrings with a live show London’s New Music Express called "a supertight howl of righteous rhythm and blues with jaw-dropping pop twists,” working alongside legendary UK producer Paul Epworth and receiving airplay on BBC Radio. He will release new music and unveil an untitled concert-theater work in 2026.
Alexander has guest directed at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, New York University and guest lectured at the University of Southern California and Harvard. These projects have included interdisciplinary explorations of the music of Julius Eastman and the writings of Igor Stravinsky.
Alexander graduated summa cum laude from New York University’s Experimental Theatre Wing and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
Directing highlights include: John Cage’s Apartment House 1776 (Detroit Opera), featured in the New York Times and NPR’s All Things Considered; two Rolling Stone video premieres for Grammy-winning vocalist Judith Hill; the revival of Yuval Sharon’s The Comet / Poppea (Yale Repertory Theater); co-directing, with Sharon, Viktor Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Miami New World Symphony) and the workshop of This Ghost of Slavery (National Museum of African American History), a workshop written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith; Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage (REDCAT); La tragèdie de Carmen (San Diego Opera); and Sanctuaries, of which Oregon Artswatch wrote: “if one of art’s essential fronts is to make us feel and to understand others on a deep, indescribable level, then Sanctuaries succeeds.”
As a bandleader and theater artist, he has presented work at Joe’s Pub (New York), REDCAT and The Ford Theater (Los Angeles). He previously led the musical group Trick & the Heartstrings with a live show London’s New Music Express called "a supertight howl of righteous rhythm and blues with jaw-dropping pop twists,” working alongside legendary UK producer Paul Epworth and receiving airplay on BBC Radio. He will release new music and unveil an untitled concert-theater work in 2026.
Alexander has guest directed at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, New York University and guest lectured at the University of Southern California and Harvard. These projects have included interdisciplinary explorations of the music of Julius Eastman and the writings of Igor Stravinsky.
Alexander graduated summa cum laude from New York University’s Experimental Theatre Wing and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.