Alex Draper

Alex Draper is a professional stage, film and television actor. Highlights in his twenty-year career include performing with the Mabou Mines in Paris, France, filming the Bollywood extravaganza Kalapani in the Andeman Islands, and co-founding the Blue Light Theatre in New York. Blue Light as a company and Mr. Draper as a performer received crtitical acclaim for revivals of Odet’s Golden Boy and Waiting for Lefty, both directed by Joanne Woodward, as well as for the New York premieres of Dare Clubb’s Obie Award winning Oedipus, starring Billy Crudup and Frances McDormand, and Howard Barker’s Scenes from an Execution, directed by Richard Romagnoli and produced in association with Middlebury’s Potomac Theatre Project. Alex has appeared in the world premieres of Get What You Need (Atlantic), Saint Crispin’s Day (Rattlestick), Wilderness of Mirrors (George Street), and Endpapers (Variety Arts), as well as the New York premieres of Terrorism (New Group), Rose’s Dilemma (Manhattan Theatre Club) and The Pitchfork Disney (Blue Light). Regional work includes productions at Arena Stage, Yale Rep, the McCarter, Williamstown, the Potomac Theatre Project, the Westport Playhouse, the Huntington, and the Berkshire Theatre Festival. He received his BA from Middlebury, and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama, where he was the recipient of the Oliver Thorndike Acting Award. Alex has worked as a teacher and director with the 52nd Street Project, and taught acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.