Artists statement:

My chief interest as a playwright is to unlock a collective internal world using familiar unreality:

-The feeling of an out-of control conversation. 

-A physicalization of struggles with the power of legacy over our imaginations. 

-The thoughts in our heads becoming sentient figures in an electric world. 

The theatre is both external and social, and I aim to place the audience in a universe that reflects not the exact reality of their external lives, but an unreality that feels, all the same, quite familiar, as if it is continually in the near-future of the mind.

In terms of specifics, here’s my resume below:

Alex Fortune

Alexpalmerfortune@gmail.com

Alexfortune.com

413-336-3057

Playwriting:

Full Productions:       Directed. by:

Narrative Machine Broke       Short Play       Impostors Theatre Co. 2023         McManus

Forsythian Dweller’s Club Full Length Minnesota Fringe Festival, 2018* Ben kaye

      Bittersweet Arts Co. 2017       Anthony Gervais

The Hat-Walk Short Play  Bittersweet Arts Co. 2017       Reed Keller  

*Winner of Golden Lanyard Award (Venue Pick), Minnesota Fringe Festival, 2018

Workshop Productions:

The Turnip Full Length NoMads Arts Collective       Gin To

The Hat-Walk Short play Horizon Theatre     Jeff Adler

We Know Nothing, Maybe Short Play Columbia College Chicago     Michael Brown

Zen of Swampus Short play Columbia College Chicago     Cassie Scaman

Beautiful Day  One-act  Columbia College Chicago     Madisen Dempsey

Hello, Deirdre Short musical  Columbia College Chicago     Adam Goldstein

Monsoon Season Full Length Columbia College Chicago     Alex Fortune

The Lilliput Plan One-act Columbia College Chicago     James Sherman

Soupicide Short play Columbia College Chicago     Joe Janes

Screenwriting:

Forsythian Dweller’s Club*     Feature film     Independent               Mary Lumley

Waves on Concrete Short film Tangerine Dreams Mary Lumley & Zach Huber

Wonk Residence(staff writer) Webseries Tangerine Dreams Mary Lumley & Zach Huber

*Currently in post-production

Education: Columbia College Chicago, B.A. Musical Theatre, Playwriting (minor) 

Other Theatre Experience :

Company Member Bittersweet Arts Co 2017-2019

Literary Intern Jackalope Theatre 2017

Other Work History: Town of Whately, MA: Town Cultural Council Member 2012-2015