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 The Invisible Dog gallery and will next be seen at the Jazz in Marciac Festival in France, 2012.
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 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.