Alex Mallory is the director of The Metal Shop Performance Lab, founded with the mission to create theatrical events that foster radical community-building and authentic exchange between artists and audiences. Current Metal Shop projects: THE VULNERABLE YEAR, investigating the power of vulnerability in search of self-love, and A WAKENING, which seeks to heal the generational shame and silence around sexual education and agency of women.
Alex’s directing highlights include GOLIATH, DIJLA WAL FURAT, THE REFUGE PROJECT, and FAITH with Poetic Theater Productions (Co-Artistic Director, 2011-2015), Schiller’s MARY STUART, and an original translation of SPRING AWAKENING. Her masters’ thesis investigates how authenticity and authorship in theatrical process helps to create productive, brave spaces for conversations on personal and collective histories of violence for artists and audience members.
As a facilitator for DE-CRUIT, Alex helps military veterans to unlearn unwanted behaviors and heal from trauma using classical acting training and Shakespearean texts. Further work with military veterans includes directing and producing for Piven Theatre, The Telling Project, LaGuardia Community College, and the Veteran Artist Program, with whom she produced THE HOME SHOW at Lincoln Center.
Alex holds an MFA in Directing from Northwestern University and a BA from Stanford University where she received the Louis Sudler Prize in Creative Arts and the Sherifa Omade Edoga Prize for work involving social issues. She has assisted at Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Goodman Theatre, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Associate Member, SDC. www.alexmallory.com.
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Co-Artistic Director of Poetic Theater Productions 2011-2015
Director of Filial Therapy in Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival
Director of GOLIATH in the Planet Connections Theatre Festival, in Poetic License 2012, at the Wild Project, in Culture Project’s IMPACT 2012 Festival, at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, at LaGuardia Community College, on tour to Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz, and in Poetic License 2014
Director of faith in Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity and in Poetic License 2013
Director of reading of Off The Record in Poetic License 2013
Director of reading of The Will to Knowledge in Poetic License 2013
Director of reading of Love in a Time of Blood Quantum in Poetic License 2013
Director of Ideals At War: Love in Poetic License 2013
Director for Love, Redefined 2014
Director in “presents…” development series
Director of Dijla Wal Furat: Between the Tigris and the Euphrates in Poetic License 2015
Director in Conscious Language 2014 & 2015
Director of THE REFUGE PROJECT in Poetic License 2016
Director of Jezelle the Gazelle in Taproot in Poetic License 2016
Director of & Development of Ritual of Becoming featured in Veteran Voices: Rites of Passage