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.
Betweenizdat is an original chamber piece investigating the intersection between culture, freedom, and family. Through video interviews, family photographs, music, and the ritual of sharing a meal, an intimate audience joins me in exploring the significance of a particular Soviet-era Russian singer and why his legacy is so universal.
Presented in 2016 as part of the CalArts New Works Festival.
