Alexander Gedeon is a multidisciplinary artist and director of opera, concert-theater and music video. Over the past seven years Alexander has worked at the cutting edge of new American opera and theater alongside multiple Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellow and Grammy award-winning artists. Career highlights include: ‘Everything Rises’ at the BAM Next Wave Festival (a New York Times Critic’s Pick); ‘Sanctuaries’ a ceremonial opera for Black neighborhoods lost to gentrification, staged at Portland’s Memorial Coliseum; Anna Deavere Smith’s new work on the juvenile justice system ‘This Ghost of Slavery’ at National Sawdust this fall, to be co-directed with Yuval Sharon. Last year Alexander premiered two music videos for Prince protégé Judith Hill — ‘Black Widow’ and ‘Dame de la Lumière’ — exclusively on Rolling Stone.
Other highlights include co-directing ‘Der Kaiser von Atlantis’ with Yuval Sharon at Miami New World Symphony; pantomiming alongside composer Daniel Corral in Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage at REDCAT; and re-imagining Peter Brook & Georges Bizet’s ‘La tragèdie de Carmen’ at San Diego Opera. He associate directed for Sharon at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Detroit Opera and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
As a bandleader and composer, Alexander led the New York power-trio Trick & the Heartstrings, creating a live show London’s New Music Express acclaimed as “a supertight howl of righteous rhythm and blues with jaw-dropping pop twists,” working with legendary pop music producer Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence + the Machine). The band released music through 679 Records, a Warner Brothers subsidiary in the UK, and will issue a new recording on Oro Records in 2026.
Alexander has guest directed at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, New York University and guest lectured at the University of Southern California and Harvard. These projects have included interdisciplinary explorations of the music of Julius Eastman and the writings of Igor Stravinsky. He graduated summa cum laude from New York University’s Experimental Theatre Wing and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.