Alex Sutton
Theatre Director Film/ TV Director Dramaturg Fine Artist ProducerAlex is a neurodiverse, LGBTQIA+, Irish-Cornish film and theatre director specialising in new music theatre and plays integrating a strong musical element.
He trained National Film and Television School (NFTS), Bristol University, and at the VGIK Institute of Cinematography in Moscow.
Alex has twice been a finalist for the RTST Peter Hall directing award, nominated for the Peter Brook Empty Space Award for his work at the Grimeborn Festival (2009) and received a nomination for Best Director at the 2020 Stage Debut Awards for his production of Dave Malloy’s Preludes.
He was also resident director at the National Theatre in 2017. In addition to his directing work, Alex lectures on music theatre history at ArtsEd, Mountview, Associated Studios, and Urdang.
Credits
DIRECTOR Head Over Heels, GSA Bellairs Theatre, 1 week, 2024DIRECTOR Kiss me Kate, NYMT Leicester Curve, 1 week, 2023
DIRECTOR Chess, NYMT, Leicester Curve, 1 week, 2022
DIRECTOR Million Dollar Quartet, Barn, 6 weeks, 2022
RESIDENT DIRECTOR, Cinderella, West End, from 2021- 2022
DIRECTOR, Spring Awakening, 1 week, 2021
DIRECTOR, Preludes Live stream, 1 week, 2021
DIRECTOR, Hunchback of Notre Dame (BSL Inclusive), 1 week, 2021
DIRECTOR, Kiss me Kate, Other Place, 1 week, 2020
DIRECTOR, Cry Baby, Leicester Curve, 1 week, 2020
DIRECTOR, Edelweiss Pirates, Leicester Curve, 2020
DIRECTOR, Preludes, Southwark Playhouse, 6 weeks, 2019
DIRECTOR, Anything Goes, Other Palace, 1 week, 2019
DIRECTOR, Out House, Leicester Curve, 1 week, 2019
DIRECTOR, The Night before Christmas, Southwark Playhouse, 4 weeks, 2018
DIRECTOR, Sleepy Hollow, Other Palace, 1 week 2018
FLIM/TV
SUCKER - 3rd AD (Fae Al-kalamchi)
The Diplomat - Netflix - Floor PA
EL CURAZON - 3rd AD (Dir: Oscar
CICADA - 2nd AD (Dir: Roxana Stroe)
My Father Breaks things - 2nd AD (Dir: Olivia Owyeung)
Under the Floor - 3rd AD (Dir: Oscar Simmons)
Big Steps - 3rd AD (Dir: Junbo Qui)
Location
LondonExperience
10+ years
Art forms / Disciplines
- AR / VR
- Architecture
- Comedy
- Crafts
- Dance
- Fashion
- Film - documentary
- Film - feature
- Film - short
- Gaming and interactivity
- Graphic / product design
- Literature
- Live art
- Magic / illusion
- Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
- Music
- New technologies / digital
- Opera
- Radio/Audio
- Streaming
- Theatre / Live perfomance
- TV - documentary
- TV - drama
- Visual arts
What I do
- Access consultancy (including BSL, audio-description and neurodiversity)
- Choreography
- Costume Design
- Curating
- Devising
- Directing
- Dramaturgy
- Languages
- Lighting Design
- Movement Direction
- Music - Can learn by ear
- Music - Can Read
- Music - Plays Instruments
- Music - Singing
- Music Composition
- Outdoor performance
- Performance Art
- Performing
- Physical Theatre / Mime
- Producing
- Prop Making
- Puppetry
- Set Design
- Site Responsive/Immersive
- Sound Design
- Teaching / Coaching
- Theatre making
- Video Design
- Working with Deaf artists
- Working with Deaf non-professional adults / children
- Working with disabled artists
- Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
- Working with learning disabled adults / children
- Working with learning disabled artists
- Working with young people
- Working with young people with special educational needs
- Working within a Community / with community participants
- Workshopping & Development
- Writing
Additional Languages
I speak fluent Italian and basic German, Swedish & Russian. I use BSL (level 3)
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