About Alexander

Alexander Davis is a Boston-based performer, choreographer, and homosexual interested in subverting theatrical expectations and heightening the pedestrian. Alex has worked, performed and presented with organizations across Boston including Ryan Landry's Gold Dust Orphans, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Children's Chorus, World Music/CRASHarts and Improv Asylum/Laugh Boston. Alex was a long-time company member with Urbanity Dance, where he was also the director of their Summer Choreographer Intensive Program, and Served as Interim Artistic Director for the 2019–2020 Season. As a choreographer and fiber artist Alex has received grant and residency support from The Studios at Mass MoCA, The Boston Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Urbanity Dance, The City of Boston, and The Theatre Offensive. Alex assisted choreographer Monica Bill Barnes on Greta Gerwig’s Academy Award-winning 2019 film Little Women. In 2019 Alex was named City of Boston Artist Fellow. In 2023 Alex earned his MFA from Smith College, where he was a Teaching Fellow from 2021–2022. In 2018 Alex and collaborator Joy Davis (The Davis Sisters) were named Bessie Schonberg (Boston) Fellows at The Yard where they developed their collaborative work Junk Drawer, which was performed at the ‘62 Center in 2019. The Davis Sisters also received the inaugural Creative Residency at The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, an inaugural Creative Residency from Studio@550 in 2019, and a Run of the Mills at The Boston Center for the Arts, Chelsea Theatre Works, and UrbanityX. Alex is a passionate arts administrator, a published memoirist, an educator and facilitator, a fiber artist, a curator, a sexual consent educator, and an okay comedian.

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