Alex Tobey is a Brooklyn-based stage director and creative producer obsessed with music, magic, and mystery. His work primarily focuses on new play development, musical theatre, queer collaboration, and immersive, non-traditional audience experiences.
AS A DIRECTOR
Favorite credits include the world premiere of Kev Berry’s Rough Trade (The Tank), Savannah Reich’s participatory Caveman Play (Exponential Festival / Patch Works), the 20th anniversary all-star concert of Paul Scott Goodman’s Bright Lights, Big City (54 Below), the pandemic live-streamed Harsh Cacophonies I & II (The Tank / CyberTank Productions), the unauthorized Rihanna bio-concert Good Girl Gone Bad (HERE), and Ian Finley’s site-specific marathon adaptation of the Oedipus trilogy, The Greeks (Burning Coal Theatre Company). He has worked as an associate or assistant director to Saheem Ali, Lee Sunday Evans, Dustin Wills, Jonathan Silverstein, Shira Milikowsky, and others.
AS A CREATIVE PRODUCER
Alex recently finished his third summer at Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College as Associate Producer, where he oversaw 15 developmental workshops, readings, and training company performances over the course of 5 weeks. He has served as Resident Director of INKubator at Art House Productions since 2018 and has produced 32 “first look” staged readings as a part of the annual INKubator New Play Festival in Jersey City. Alex also worked for the Leah Ryan Fund as Project Coordinator from 2018-2022, where he oversaw the submission and adjudication processes for their annual playwriting award and line produced readings of the winning plays.
Alex is the personal assistant to Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Sergio Trujillo, whom he has assisted on projects including Real Women Have Curves (American Repertory Theater, pre-Broadway development), The Harder They Come (The Public Theater), Ain't Too Proud (West End, national tour), and more shows yet to be announced. He currently works alongside Sergio as the Dance Department Coordinator for the Kiss of the Spider Woman feature film directed by Bill Condon and starring Jennifer Lopez.
Alex was raised in North Carolina, loves Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Bojangles cajun filet biscuits, and holds a BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University.
Full resume available by request.