Bio

Alex Koch creates narrative film, video installations, and theatrical projections. Recent designs include a national tour of KJ Sanchez’s ReEntry; Goodbar, a rock opera with feature-length film projections performing in the the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival; the first stage adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man originating at the Court Theatre in Chicago; and Chaos Manor, a site-specific work which premiered at Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog gallery.

Alex has designed for many New York City theater companies including Waterwell, the Woodshed Collective, the Director’s Company, Urban Stages, Repertorio Espanol, Little Opera Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, TerraNOVA, Theater Mitu, Ma-Yi, the Assembly, the Electric Pear, and SummerStage.

Significant artistic influences include working with Caden Manson’s Big Art Group on Dead Set II and III developed in Berlin at the Hebbel Theater, and associate design work with Jay Schieb on A House in Bali at MIT, the Emerson Majestic in Boston, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.

Alex is a founding member of the design collective Imaginary Media.

Program Bio

Alex Koch creates video installations, narrative film, and media design for theater. Projections design on Broadway; Irena’s Vow (Walter Kerr). Off-Broadway and Downtown: Goodbar (Waterwell, Under the Radar 2012); Feeder (TerraNOVA Collective); En el Tiempo de las Mariposas, La Casa de los Espiritus (Repertorio Espanol); ReEntry, The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion (Urban Stages); Lenin’s Embalmers (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional: The Invisible Man (Court Theatre); ReEntry (Center Stage, Round House, Actors Theater of Louisville); La Casa de los Espiritus (Mori Theater, Chile). plus productions with the Director’s Company, Theater MITU, Electric Pear, Shalimar, SummerStage, Little Opera Theater, and the New Ensemble. Also technical design for New Georges at 3LD and Big Art Group’s Dead Set II & III.