ABOUT
ALEX CRITOPH
As a Freelance Producer Alex has produced a varied body of work
including; ViSiBLE Theatre Ensembles Five Characters in Search of a Good
Night's Sleep Directed by Mike Alfreds at Southwark Playhouse, Salt-Water
Moon directed by Peter Kavanagh at The Finborough Theatre
and We'll Dance on the Ash of the Apocalypse directed by Melissa-Kelly
Franklin at The Park Theatre.
In 2024 she produced two Arts Council England Funded Research and
Development projects; Bury Your Brothers directed by Ben Quashie, in
partnership with New Works at The Liverpool Everyman Playhouse, which
included a Rehearsed Reading at The Bush Theatre and Cancer B*tch!
Directed by Lydia McKinley, which was a seed commission from OffBeat
at The Oxford Playhouse.
Women’s Writes is Alex’s brainchild and started life in 2019 as a New Writing
Night for female-identifying and non-binary playwrights. It played it’s first
sold out show at The Arcola Theatre and then headed to VAULT Festival
2020. Since then she’s curated and produced over 40 short plays across
New Writing Fests at VAULT, Arcola and the ONCOMM Nominated Women’s
Writes Online Festival, named in The Guardian as one of the ‘Hottest front room seats for online Theatre.’
It's continued to grow, and in 2022 Women's Writes went to The Park Theatre’s Come What May Festival. Alex also wrote Women's Writes' play with songs And We’ll Catch Stardust, Yes We Will which had an R&D showing at VAULT Festival 2023.
As a playwright her work has been performed at VAULT Festival, The Arcola Theatre, The Brighton Fringe Festival and Theatre503. She was also commissioned alongside 19 other writers including Roy Williams and Jon Brittain for the ImagiNation series of short plays with Theatre503 and Theatre Centre. She is one of the 2024 resident Playwrights at The Criterion Theatre through their New Writing Programme.
Her new play All That Glitters is in development for 2025.
She has directed short plays; Like It’s Your Last by Barry McStay and Zig Zag Zig by Christian Graham for The Miniaturists at The Arcola Theatre, and a short version of Supernova by Rhiannon Neads at The Pleasance Theatre, Islington.
She's also written a couple of opinion pieces for The Stage Newspaper here.
Alex trained on the BA at LAMDA and took her MA in Creative Writing with OU.
Her past work has been described as; “Refreshing” (North West End) “Redressing the balance” (The Stage), “Utterly convincing” (The Times), “Empowering” (DIVA Magazine) and Salt-Water Moon was described as “A Lyrical Love Story” by The Stage and received nine four star reviews.
Read more about some of her past projects below.
