Alex Hare is a director/writer of theater and film, focusing in particular on original musicals.
Recent directing: We Take Pictures (short film), Topdog/Underdog (StageCenter Louisiana), Everyday Charlie (The Tank), The Judgment of Quintus (comedic video game by Greg Edwards, due out in 2024).
His microbudget movie CAPRICORN 29 premiered online in 2021 and was praised by NY Magazine, the New Yorker, and more. Co-written with Julia Izumi, it featured original songs by Laura Galindo, Daniel & Patrick Lazour, Stompcat, and Storm Thomas.
Alex is currently developing several new musicals, including A Burning Church with collaborators Zhailon Levingston and Nehemiah Luckett. The trio have worked on the show through New Ohio/IRT’s Archive Residency, Musical Theatre Factory’s MAKERS cohort, Goodspeed’s JMF Writers Grove, and fellowship with A Blade of Grass.
In 2020, Alex received the SDC Foundation’s Charles Abbott Fellowship for young musical theatre directors. Assistant credits include School of Rock and Side Show (Broadway).
For four years, Alex was the associate artistic director of Corkscrew Theater Festival, an NYC-based festival of new plays. He has frequently assisted director Bill Condon on film and stage projects. Columbia University alum.
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He’s motivated (ok, I’m motivated, no one else is behind this Squarespace page…) to create networks of artists mutually supporting each other in order to build a future that isn’t dictated by concentrated power held by the few. So, don’t hesitate to reach out!
RECENT projects:
We Take Pictures (short film)
Three artists at the end of a romantic relationship rediscover photos they took of each other years earlier at the beach, inspired by the 20th century photo collective/ménage à trois known as PaJaMa.
written + directed by Alex Hare
cinematography + color by Chun Fung Kevin Chiu
featuring Raquel Chavez, Zachary Desmond, and Brady Dalton Richards
music by Daniel Lazour
edited by Alex Hare
finishing editor Chun Fung Kevin Chiu
sound mixing by Quentin Chiappetta at MediaNoise NYC
(contact me if you’d like to watch the full film)
Topdog/Underdog
StageCenter LA, starring Zhailon Levingston and Mikah Thomas (January 2024). Set Design by Seth Taylor, lighting by Sam Copeland, costumes by Courtnei Gabriel, props by Candy Huggins. Photography by Terri Ostermeyer.
CAPRICORN 29 (INTERNET-FILM)
On the eve of her 29th birthday, a Very Online millennial stumbles upon a curious conspiracy theory: the powers-that-be have initiated a new capitalist plot to eliminate unsuccessful 30 year olds.
Unfolding in the form of a hallucinatory YouTube wormhole, CAPRICORN 29 is a film (made for the internet) that wrestles with the tyranny of age-based milestones.
“[A] cleverly constructed video production….we are in a golden age of people explaining to those of us online what it’s like to be online. And it’s in this way that I think Capricorn 29 is actually brilliant….[what’s real] is the way every maker on the team handles and embroiders the digital fabric.” - Helen Shaw, Vulture/NY Magazine
“The innovative work of these first-rate talents is funny, insightful, and masterful; I can’t recommend it highly enough and I can’t wait to see what they do next.” - DC Metro Theater Arts
Directed by Alex Hare | Written by Julia Izumi and Alex Hare | Songs by The Lazours, Storm Thomas, Laura Galindo, and Stompcat | Produced by The Tank and Post Theatrical with Sami Pyne
EVERYDAY CHARLIE (MUSICAL FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES)
The Tank (November 2023). Music by Michael Alan Johnson, Summer Dregs & Paul Smallman. Book by Julie Drexler Johnson & Haley Tomsheck.
Choreography by Catrina Contini, music direction by Julie Johnson, lighting by Kristen Paige.
featuring Yasmin Ranz-Lind, Johnny Rabe, Michael Alan Johnson, Ella Baumann, Hannah Carter, Catrina Contini, Sydney Kenton, Leah Reineck, Jack Roden, and Miciah Wallace
Videography by Chris Warner, editing by Alex Hare
MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM (PODCAST)
Alex appeared on the podcast Movies vs. Capitalism to offer an anti-capitalist analysis of Little Shop of Horrors (plus trivia, gossip, personal anecdotes, and more).