staged readings
in the rehearsal room for the 2023 staged reading of Love Interest by Lee Melillo
photo by Rissa Lavilla
Alex is proud to have made and maintained deep, fruitful relationships with writers. She contributes to the development of new plays through dramaturgy, staging, and thoughtful support. She often works with playwrights and other artists repeatedly, sustaining artistic partnerships that inform current and future projects.
more about these plays in development:
The Price of Halibut by Celine Ariniello | a comedic drama about trans women, sex work, and the AITA Reddit thread
Slow Burn by Lee Melillo | a comedy about fanfiction culture as a rare safe space for young women and queer people to explore sex and gender
Seoul City Sue by Kenjiro Lee | a documentary theatre play revealing the true hisstory of an American woman who defected to North Korea
Circle Talk by Trang Le | a choreopoem about the cyclical nature of intergenerational trauma in immigrant Vietnamese families
Magical Girls Deserve Breaks Too by Iz Gonzalez | a comedic drama about violence in pop culture and how it affects the most vulnerable
Love Interest by Lee Melillo | a comedic drama about how the superhero moviemaking industrial complex is fueled on women, queer people, and people of color
THE PRICE OF HALIBUT by Celine Ariniello (photos by Dan Ariniello)
SEOUL CITY SUE by Kenjiro Lee (photos by Megumi Lee)
CIRCLE TALK by Trang Le (photos by Vas Eli Photography)
MAGICAL GIRLS DESERVE BREAKS TOO by Iz Gonzalez (photos by Natália Guedes)
LOVE INTEREST by Lee Melillo (photos by Anna Mayo and Rissa Lavilla)