ALEX ROMANIA is a multidisciplinary performing artist, improviser, and filmmaker. Romania is a current Franklin Furnace Fund recipient, a 2024 Djerassi resident artist, a 2022 MacDowell fellow, a 2023 Center for Performance Research AIR, a 2018-2020 Movement Research AIR, and has held residencies at Old Furnace Artist Residency, Tofte Lake Center, Chez Bushwick, and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Some of Romania’s current projects include co-directing the film ‘RECKONING’ with Stacy Lynn Smith, the multidisciplinary opera ‘Face Eaters’ (Chocolate Factory Theater, May 2024), co-directorship of the experimental documentary ‘Patch the Sky with Five Colored Stones’ conceived by choreographer Daria Faïn, a collaborative short film entitled ‘Mira, Mira, Mira!’ with Daniela Fabrizi and the Re Hecho community in the LES. Romania has presented internationally at spaces such as Grace Exhibition Space, Abrons Arts Center, Encuentro, Casa Viva, UV Estudios, Sub Rosa Space. Romania has performed in various works by Kathy Westwater since 2013, and in the work of artists such as Simone Forti, Éva Mag, Eddie Peake, Andy de Groat, and Catherine Galasso. As a video collaborator and designer, Romania has had several video designs featured within works by Antonio Ramos, and has worked on film projects with Marin Media Labs, TAAMAS / Sarah Riggs, Trixie Films / Therese Shechter, Christopher Unpezverde Nuñez, Martita Abril, and Sarah White-Ayòn. Since graduating from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2013 with a BFA in Drama, Romania has enjoyed an exciting career in experimental live performance along with parallel work in independent film, video and design. Romania is excited about how these adventures in deep experimentation may feed developing script based films and plays, some of which include a budding memoir, and character based extensions of previous work.
