Alexandra Friedman

set & production design | costume design | fabrication

Alex Friedman creates environments for performance - on screen, on stage, and on the body. She is especially excited about new work and having an open collaborative process. Alex aims to engage diverse audiences, exploding their preconceived notions of what film and theatre can be, and is interested in media that embrace the tactile craft of design and the beauty of the handmade.

Born in St Petersburg, Russia, Alex is a native of New York City and an alumna of Brandeis University and CalArts. Her design work for theatre has been presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and throughout the SF Bay Area and LA.

Alex recently completed jobs as a set designer on a new series for Bix Pix and on Guillermo del Toro’s new stop-motion Pinocchio film, produced by Shadowmachine and Netflix. Her first feature as a set designer, LAIKA’s stop-motion Missing Link, won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature in 2020. She is currently open to new opportunities.

Co-CONCEPTION, DIRECTION, & DESIGN

BLUE, face the wall

Blue, Face the Wall was a site-specific performance within the California Institute of the Arts, created in response to a visit to the Los Angeles County Jail. The installation juxtaposed the physical structure of the two institutions -- jail and school -- as actors representing inmates followed an arbitrary set of rules enforced by actors playing guards. The piece was an attempt to process our experience of the jail, investigating the relationships between visitors, prisoners, and enforcers in an environment with very specific systems governing the movements and actions of its inhabitants.

Created in collaboration with Aubree Lynn