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Alex Oleksy is a director, dramaturg, educator, and arts administrator invested in supporting contemporary stories rethinking the American future.  They thrive in process-oriented, all-hands-on-deck spaces that encourage experimentation in both form and content. Influenced by everything from Bertolt Brecht to hyperpop, Alex loves making weird art with weird (and cool) people.

Alex’s recent and upcoming credits include: Flight of the Puffin (New Plays for Young Audiences), STAN, or The Dinosaur Play (The Tank NYC), Recruiting Tomorrow’s Army, Today! (The Tank NYC), Worms (RE/VENUE @ Paradise Factory), sublimation (LimeFest @ The Tank NYC), Vape Lord (Samuel French OOB), The Wash (Portland Stage’s Studio Theater), Patty (Vino Theater), the Up Above (NYC Educational Tour), Pink Morph Suits (The Tank NYC), Decaer, or and Waiting and (Tisch Student Works), Portraits: US (Verbatim Performance Lab), Strange Happenings in the School Library (Luna Stage).

Alex is the Co-Artistic Director of Student Productions and Student Affairs Coordinator at the Atlantic Theater Company, a Script Reader at Playwrights Horizons, and a 2025-26 Ambassador at MCC Theater.

Associations: Atlantic Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, LaMama ETC, Portland Stage Company, The Kennedy Center, Barrington Stage Company, Life Jacket Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, The Tank NYC, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Luna Stage, Verbatim Performance Lab.