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.

production DESIGN

eclipse, directed by jerrold chong

Eclipse is a short stop-motion film about a son’s visit to his long-estranged father, on the day of an impending solar eclipse. An event of cosmic significant coincides with an emotional revelation for father and son.

I worked closely with the director (who also wrote the piece, and built and animated the puppets) to develop the aesthetic for this film’s world, with its different textures of paper and rich colors. I also constructed the log cabin and lake sets, and led the build of the train.

written and animated by Jerrold Chong

costume design by Jessica Dabovich

assistant production design by Joseph Jin

art direction by Bora Lee & Chase Ko

additional set design and construction by Anna Jaewon Kim & Jiaying Wang