CRAIG ALEXANDER

Craig Alexander is an award-winning actor, writer, film and theatre maker with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Acting from CSU. He has an extensive history touring throughout regional centres with Riverina based Gearstick Theatre; the company which he co-founded and led as Artistic Director for almost ten years.

As well as producing over 25 different productions, Gearstick allowed Craig to hone his character skills with a variety of roles including Bernie Litko in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Dracula himself in Kevin Poynter's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Gothic classic and even Pat the Dog in Bruce Keller's gorgeous children's play Puppy Love. 

He also began writing at that time with sketch comedy shows The Toilet Monologues and The Reindeer Monologues for Gearstick; leading on to Cubicles and Crusaders of the Lost Heart for Riverina Young Peoples Theatre, And Then There Were 3 through the Street Theatre’s Hive Program and several short films and unfinished novels.

Following the birth of his second child he took some time off performing and creating and found himself in various creative leadership positions across the country, including Creative Producer for Jigsaw Theatre Company, General Manager for Canberra Youth Theatre and Manager for Coffs Harbour's gorgeous Jetty Memorial Theatre. 

However, since 2014 Craig has once again been focused on his own creative practice, primarily as an actor and creator with a particular focus on screen content.

As an actor his recent stage credits include: his acclaimed solo production of Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol; Thomas Novachek in The Street Theatre’s Venus In Fur, the premiere of David Atfield’s Exclusion and sharing the stage with one half of the Umbilical Brothers, Shane Dundas, in Yasmin Reza’s Art, also for the Street Theatre. 

Recent Screen performances include: The Silent Service (Amazon), Murder in the Outback (Channel 7/Beyond) Dirt(Next In Line Films – Best Actor | Fleurieue Film Festival 2017) and Invited (Berger-Alexander - Best Actor | CSFF 2021). 

He’s also been honing his filmmaking skills with various short film, web-series and documentary projects seeing him both in front of, and behind, the camera. These include writing, directing and performing in Under The Bed (Official Selection CSFF 2018, Best Actress CSFF 2018), The Photographer(Official Selection LCA 2018 and CSFF 2018, Best Actor Craig Alexander CSFF 2018), AKA Harvey Norman (Official Selection LCA 2019, CSFF 2019 and Port Shorts 2019) and donning a wicked moustache in the hilarious Trainee Bomb Squad web series. 

As covid struck he brought his two worlds together for the live-streamed and critically acclaimed theatrical/cinematic hybrid, St Nicholas (Dir. Shelly Higgs). 2021 saw him immersed in the documentary space alongside Creswick Collective, following the creation of a large scale mural project by acclaimed artist Luke Cornish (E.L.K). Entitled Together Alone it saw a series of short form pieces detailing the conception and creation of the mural and garnered an Innovation in Storytelling Award at the 2021 Canberra Short Film Festival. Most recently he directed the narrative short A Chance Conversation written by Navy Veteran Alee Scarfone, exploring the issues relating to the reintegration of ex-service men and women in to civilian life.

Craig's currently developing the comedy/thriller Snatchers, scheduled to shoot March 2024 in Canberra.