Experience Summary
Over thirty years directing, acting, producing, writing and thinking about Shakespeare. ALEXANDER D CARNEY has staged works across the country, from New York to Wisconsin, with an emphasis on classical work, winning awards for his directing from both the Baltimore Playwrights Festival and Broadwayworld.com. With the Maryland Shakespeare Festival for many years, he directed Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest and Measure for Measure as well as their Shakespeare Alive! yearly tour which was seen by over 25,000 middle and high school students in the greater DC area. Other highlights: A Tuna Christmas at Virginia’s Court Street Theatre, The Taming of the Shrew (Festival 59, Princeton, Illinois) as well as A Lie of the Mind and Much Ado About Nothing at Stella Adler Studios, NYC. Additionally, Alex has directed several Youth Theater productions (self devised work such as FAIRY TALES IN ‘DA HOOD, a retelling of Grimm’s Fairy Tales set in the Baltimore ghetto) and is the Artistic Director of Raised Spirits Theater Company, which produced the first staging of the First Quarto version of The Chronicle Historie of Henry V in 400 years as well as staging the uncut Folio of The Tragedy of Hamlet. He holds a BA in Theatre Arts from SUNY/Empire State College, an MFA in Elizabethan and Renaissance Literature with a concentration in Directing and an M.Litt. in Elizabethan and Renaissance Literature in Performance from Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Teaching Style
Personal, geared to the student.