He is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Team Sunshine Performance, where for more than a decade he has shaped and directed the majority of the  company’s major projects — from multi-year, life-spanning investigations like The Sincerity Project, to place-based works created in deep collaboration with local communities, to performance experiments that ask how we show up for one another in moments of uncertainty.

Alex’s practice is rooted in curiosity about how people build identity, belonging, and power — especially across cultures and generations. His work often involves extended research, long-running relationships with ensembles and communities, and a commitment to listening closely to lived experience. He is particularly interested in the possibilities of theatrical non-fiction: performance that holds real stories with nuance, care, and a clear-eyed sense of responsibility. As a Cuban-American artist, he is continually wrestling with questions of diaspora and the role heritage plays in shaping who we are. As a queer artist, he thinks a lot about belonging, intimacy, and the networks of care that help us move through the world.

He is also a former Company Member and Associate Artistic Director of the two-time Obie Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company, where he has contributed to the company’s experimental and ensemble-driven body of work. His artistic career has been shaped by support from the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the Independence Foundation, the Princess Grace Foundation (Grace Le Vine Theater Award), the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Drama League.

Alex holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. in Directing from the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Theater at Swarthmore College, where he teaches directing, acting, and performance-making, and continues to explore the discipline of craft, the courage to claim one’s voice, and the capacities needed to effect change within the communities we serve.