Alexander Thomas was born and raised in Albany New York (USA). He has studied acting and peformed in New York City and Los Angeles.
Alexander was a cast member the U.K. stage production of On the Waterfront directed by the esteemed Steven Berkoff which ran in London’s West End at the Royal Haymarket Theatre, as well the Edinburg Festival, Nottingham Playhouse and the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
In the USA his self-pinned solo show Throw Pitchfork ran off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop and the Kitchen Theatre before going to on to win Special Honours prize at the Thespis Mono Drama Festival in Kiel, Germany.
He also co-wrote and performed in Black Stuff, a two-man farce about African-American identity which ran at the Kitchen Theatre and the New York Fringe Festival.
He currently resides in Berlin, Germany where he performed in Utopia/Dystopia (and evening of 10 minutes plays) at the English Theatre of Berlin
Other theatre credits include: After Ashley (Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca); Fast Blood (Beckett Theatre, NY); Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (Cubiculo Theatre, NY); Home (Tour); Tracers (Studio Theatre, LA) and The Blacks (Hillberry Theatre, Detroit).
His eclectic acting training includes several years studying the Meisner technique under Richard Pinter (now head of the Acting Dept. at the Neighbourhood Playhouse), the Stella Alder Studio in New York, The Sam Christensen Studio in LA, and early workshops of Anne Deavere Smith
Alexander is on the "Usual Suspects" list of artist with The New York Theater Workshop.
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