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 BAM’S Next Wave Festival was selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick.
Recent highlights include co-directing two projects with Yuval Sharon: Viktor Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis at the Miami New World Symphony, as well as This Ghost of Slavery at the National Museum of African American History in Washington DC, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith.
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.
In continuation of his sustained interest in collage performance, Alexander will stage John Cage’s Apartment House 1776 at Detroit Opera next year, in celebration and critcal evaluation of America’s semiquincentennial.
Other career 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 by composer Darrell Grant and librettist Anis Mojgani, which received a 2021 MAP Fund Award.
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.
