Alex is a lapsed lawyer, former actor, and current playwright and screenwriter of Aotearoa / Canadian origin.
Alex was recently named runner-up for Playmarket New Zealand’s Best New Play Award 2026 (SUNDANCE), having been shortlisted for the award twice prior (The Ants – 2024, Eleanor Crane – 2021).
In 2025, he received a Creative New Zealand development grant to travel to Texas to attend the Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference, after being named as one of three finalists, selected from a pool of 1,000 worldwide entries, for their Stage Play Award (The Ants).
Writing for the screen, Alex has twice been awarded $10,000 feature film development grants from the New Zealand Writers Guild’s (NZWG) competitive Seed Grant initiative, with script mentorship from Jackie van Beek (What We Do In The Shadows, The Office AU) and Jesse Griffin (Educators).
Alex's work has been described as "scabrous" and "biting". He gravitates toward actor-driven stories about hyper-intelligent, emotionally bankrupt people trying (and often failing) to be better. His work has been performed at Auckland’s Basement Theatre and selected for development in New York as part of Naked Angels’ long-running Tuesdays@9 reading series.
He hardly ever speaks in the third-person, bio writing excepted.
If you’re reading this, he’d love for you to say hi.