Alex Mallory is a third-year director in the MFA program at Northwestern interested in theatrical collisions of violence and identity. Directing highlights include GOLIATH and DIJLA WAL FURAT at Wild Project, FAITH at Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival, and THE REFUGE PROJECT for Bedlam MadLAB, all developed with Poetic Theater Productions, and an original adaptation of SPRING AWAKENING at Northwestern. Since 2012 she has worked with military veterans as a director and facilitator with The Telling Project, the Veteran Artist Program (Lincoln Center), DE-CRUIT, and LaGuardia Community College. She holds a BA in Drama from Stanford University, where she received the Louis Sudler Prize in Creative Arts and the Sherifa Omade Edoga Prize for work involving social issues. She has assisted at Steppenwolf, The Goodman, and Lookingglass.  Upcoming: MARY STUART at Northwestern with an all-womxn cast, INDECENT with Shana Cooper at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Associate Member, SDC.