Alex Beetschen

For the National:

Standing at the Sky's Edge

Training

Alex is a graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge and The Royal Academy of Music

Theatre

Includes, as musical director/supervisor and orchestrator, Billie the Kid at the Vaudeville Theatre; Company and Spring Awakening at RADA); Claus at The Lowry, Salford; Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Leeds Playhouse; The Wizard of Oz and A Little Night Music for Storyhouse; The Magic Flute at Soho Theatre; Shock Treatment at King’s Head Theatre. As musical director, work includes The Sex Ed Musical for Ice&Fire; Tammy Faye at the Almeida; Curtains on UK Tour and at the Wyndham’s; Little Shop of Horrors for Storyhouse; The Toxic Avenger at Arts Theatre and Southwark Playhouse; La Traviata for Soho Theatre/Tricycle Theatre.

As a composer work includes: The Good Show at HOME, Manchester (in development), Vibrations for Mark Smith and D-Sign dance, Antigone for Storyhouse; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at East London Shakespeare Festival.