Alex Oliszewski
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ATRA
The Sand Queen
Ceremonies
Penumbra: A
Festival of Shadow
Oblivion
The Boy and The Rainbow
The Fat Ninja
 

I am including here a half dozen of the performance cinema productions I have been involved with since 2002. In choosing what to include, I gave first priority to those productions where I played a key role in the writing, direction, video, audio, lighting, stage design, and performance.

"The Fat Ninja" and "The Boy and the Rainbow" represent foundational work undertaken while I was an undergraduate at Fort Lewis College. The next three productions--"Oblivion" (2004), "Penumbra" (2005) and "The Sand Queen Ceremonies" (2006)--were professionally produced and performed under the umbrella of the Durango, Colorado-based Penumbra Theatre Company in collaboration with fellow Fort Lewis graduates Stacey Sotosky and LeAnn Brubaker. Our work and methodologies have been heavily inspired by Robert LePage, Allen Kaprow, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Ann Bogart, John Flax and others.

ATRA (2008) was written and directed by Stacey Sotosky as an aspect of her thesis for an MFA in Electronic Media Arts Design at the University of Denver. I include ATRA in my portfolio because it was my honor to work directly with Ms. Sotosky in the adaptation of the script; design of the set, video and audio; as well its staging and performance.

My CV includes more details of my theatre experience beyond these original works.