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.
Heirlumen is a movement piece exploring cross-generational relationships through the gesture of the heirloom. How is identity and sense of self developed through oral histories and objects?
Produced as part of the New Works Festival at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA, in 2014
Original Music by Coleman Zurkowski
Lighting Design by Brian Hashimoto
