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. Over the past seven years Alexander has worked at the cutting edge of new American opera and theater alongside multiple Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellow and Grammy award-winning artists. His production of Everything Rises at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), featuring Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines, was selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick.
Most recently, Alexander co-directed Viktor Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis with Yuval Sharon at the Miami New World Symphony. This fall, the two will co-direct a workshop of This Ghost of Slavery, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith, at Brooklyn's National Sawdust.
Last year Alexander premiered two videos for Grammy-winning vocalist and Prince protégé Judith Hill — Black Widow and Dame de la Lumière — exclusively on Rolling Stone.
Other highlights include directing and pantomiming alongside composer Daniel Corral in Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage at REDCAT; and Sanctuaries, an opera about gentrification at Portland’s Memorial Coliseum Zen Pavillion, by composer Darrell Grant and librettist Anis Mojgani, the latter of which received a 2021 MAP Fund Award.
Alexander continues work with Yuval Sharon as associate director, having developed new productions of John Cage (LA Philharmonic) and Richard Wagner (Detroit Opera), as well as Anna Deavere Smith's premiere operatic work Proximity, with music by Daniel Bernard Roumain, Caroline Shaw and John Luther Adams, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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 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.
