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CURRENT & UPCOMING PROJECTS:

 

Alex Bezdeka, director

 AlexBezdeka.com  760-580-9112  abezdeka@gmail.com

 

CURRENT & UPCOMING PROJECTS:

• Moonlight Amphitheater in Vista - House Manager

• CYT San Diego – Teaching Artist

• La Jolla Playhouse – Company Manager Asst.

• Del Mar Heights Elementary 2020, April: Wizard of Oz - Co-Director & Choreographer

• BTAA – 2020 Lion King, Jr & Elf the Musical

 

DIRECTING & CHOREOGRAPHY

2019 - Wildly Successful Theater Company 2019, November Agatha Christie Staged Reading - Director

2019 - Broadway Theater Arts Academy 2019, December:  Peter Pan – Assoc. Director

2019 - Sycamore Ridge Elementary 2019, December: Shrek Jr. – Co-Director & Choreographer

2019 – CYT: Schoolhouse Rock Live!  – Co-Director & Co-Choreographer

2019 - Broadway Theater Arts Academy:  Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory – Choreographer & Asst. Director

2018 - OnStage Playhouse: Turning Tydes Productions presents: The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Director

2018 - Del Mar Heights Elementary – Beauty and the Beast Jr. – Co-Director & Choreographer

2018 - Broadway Theater Arts Academy: The Little Mermaid & Alice in Wonderland – Director & Choreographer

2014 - 2017 - EF Language Program; Glee & Drama Club Beijing, China – Director and Facilitator

2012 - 2013 - VCCT presents Annie Get Your Gun & The Pajama Game – Director & Choreographer

2011 - 24 Hour Theater Experiment at The Point Loma Actors Theater - Director

 

ASSISTANT DIRECTING

2018 - Great River Shakespeare Festival: All’s Well That Ends Well – Asst. Director to Rick Barbour

2018 - Broadway Theater Arts Academy: Into the Woods – Asst. Director to Jordan Hall Campbell

2013 - The Old Globe Theater: Ibsen’s A Doll’s House - Asst. Director to Kirsten Brandt

Shakespeare Santa Cruz:

2011 - SSC’s Fringe Show: Double Bind / Plautus’ Menaechmi - Director Patty Gallagher

2011 - SSC’s Shakes-to-go’s The Comedy of Errors - Director Paul Whitworth

2007 - SSC’s The Princess and the Pea - Production Asst. Director Paul Whitworth

The Jewel Theater

2011 - Krapp’s Last Tape feat. Paul Whitworth - Director Patty Gallagher

Community and Children’s Theater:

2018 - Broadway Theater Arts Academy: Into the Woods – Asst. Director to Jordan Campbell

2012 -2013 – VCHS Legally Blonde & Hairspray - Asst. Director & Co-Choreographer to Laralee Beck

 

University of California, Santa Cruz

2010 - Dharma Grace Award Winning Play: In the Waves - Director

2009 - The Nightmare Project - Co-Director & Choreographer

2009-2011 - Clarebaret: Musical Theater One Night Extravaganza - Director & Choreographer

2008-2011 - Chautauqua Festival - Director (Any Last Words (2011), Fuckin, Eh? (2011), Charlatan  (2010), Walking in the Rain (2009), Curtain Call(2008))

Assistant Directing Experience:

2011 - 45th UCSC Faculty Research Lecture: Krapp’s Last Tape - Director  Patty Gallagher

2010 - Digital Arts & New Media Project: Stop the Press! - Director Kimberly Jannarone

2008 - Dharma Grace Award Winning Play: Haunted: A Love Story - Director K. Castaneda

 

Education:

University of California, Santa Cruz-

2011 Graduate Certificate in Theater Arts 5th Year Program

2010 B.A. in Language Studies: Mandarin & Minor in Theater Arts

2008 Beijing Normal University - 2008 Certificate of Completion Summer Abroad Program4

 

OTHER SKILLS: Can Drive 15-Passenger Van, CA Driver’s License, CPR/First Aid Certified, Event coordinator/organizer & host, volunteer usher at La Jolla Play House, Office/Secretarial work, Directing Intern – Great River Shakespeare Festival, PA/SM experience on request

 

Personal and Professional references are available upon request.