ALEXANDER GEDEON is a multidisciplinary artist and director of opera, concert-theater and music video born in Los Angeles and based in New York City. His work is an abstract ambrosia of the hyper-theatrical with the meticulous and ritualistic, exploring the often opaque politics of self-expression.
Over the past seven years Alexander has worked at the cutting edge of new American opera and theater alongside multiple Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Genius Fellow and Grammy award-winning artists. Alexander's production of Everything Rises at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, featuring Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines, was selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Previous productions have been acclaimed as "provocative, visually stunning" and "a perfect, experimental approach to opera" [San Diego Union Tribune].
Most recently Alexander directed two music videos for Grammy-winning vocalist and Prince protégé Judith Hill, exclusively premiered by Rolling Stone magazine.
This fall, Alexander will co-direct Viktor Ullman's Der Kaiser von Atlantis with opera luminary Yuval Sharon at the Miami New World Symphony. Previously, Alexander has worked closely with Sharon as associate director, developing new productions of works by John Cage, Richard Wagner and Anna Deavere Smith at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Previously, as a bandleader and composer, Alexander led the New York power-trio Trick & the Heartstrings, creating a live show London’s New Music Express acclaimed as "a supertight howl of righteous rhythm and blues with jaw-dropping pop twists,” working with legendary pop music producer Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence + the Machine). The band released music through 679 Records, a Warner Brothers subsidiary in the UK, and will issue a new recording on Oro Records in 2025.
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 (Experimental Theatre Wing) and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
