About

Alexandra Caprara is a queer interdisciplinary artist and writer from Toronto, Ontario who has worked internationally as a director, designer, performer, and writer.  She creates work using a design lead methodology within her perfomance making practice, which often centers themes of femininity, autonomy, somatics, and queerness. In particular, she believes in creating works that celebrate queer joy, that push the boundaries of design within perfomance, and lately, that involve many disco balls. Within her practice as a lighting and video designer, her methodology considers the interactivity between design technology and performers, utilizing design as an extension of the body and architectural space.  With movement and physical theatre training in Viewpoints, Riverwork, and Lecoq, her work is highly physical and will often be devised through movement-based creation. 

 

Alexandra has worked across Canada alongside companies such as Electric Company Theatre, Theatre Replacement, Vancouver City Opera, Canadian Stage, WorkMan Arts, Downstages, and Good Woman Dance.  Internationally, her design work has been featured at The American School in Switzerland, and presented in the Prauge Quadrennial Technologies Symposium with her talk, "Making Strange: Creating Abstract Perceptions of the Body, Space, and Time, Using Light" (2024).  Select credits include being the touring lighting designer for HOT DYKE PARTY; direction and design of "Ultra Violets" (IndieFest); video and lighting design for "Silent Howl" (Dancing on the Edge); the co-creation of "EVREN" (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); writing and perfomance in "A Hunger Artist" (Prague Quadrennial); director and writer of "You've Got To Be Kidney Me" (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); and the creation and curation of "ThreadBare," (2020 Rendezvous with Madness Festival). She holds a BFA from York University where she trained in devised theatre, direction, and design.  Alexandra currently resides in Vancouver where she has recently completed her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Simon Fraser University. For her full C.V, find out more on what she's working on next, send her an email through the "contact" tab.