Alexander Gedeon is a multidisciplinary artist and critically acclaimed director of opera and concert-theater based in New York City. His work has been praised as “provocative” and “a perfect, experimental approach to opera” (San Diego Union-Tribune); his production of Everything Rises at BAM’s Next Wave Festival was a New York Times Critic’s Pick.
Opera highlights include La tragédie de Carmen (San Diego Opera); Sanctuaries (Portland’s Memorial Coliseum); and co-directing Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Miami New World Symphony) with Yuval Sharon. With Sharon, he also co-directed This Ghost of Slavery, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith, for the National Museum of African American History. His work as an actor/musician spans major venues including Joe’s Pub (New York), REDCAT, and The Ford Theater (Los Angeles). Gedeon is a summa cum laude graduate of NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
