Alexander Harrington
Alexander Harrington is founder and artistic director of the Eleventh Hour Theatre Co., for which directed his own translation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon; The Burial at Thebes; Richard II; Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2; and Henry V; and his own adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (published in the New York Theatre Experience’s anthology Playing with Canons). Harrington and the Eleventh Hour are frequent guest artists at La MaMa E.T.C.; the Culture Project and HERE have also presented their work. Other directing credits include Billy Budd, Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing, and the premieres of Edward Einhorn’s Linguish (New York International Fringe Festival); Kathryn Sanders’s So Alone, Last Night in Paris, and Surprises from a Cloud; John A. Adams’s In the Shadow of a Dream; and Lella Heins’s Finder Keeper, Lion Taming in Miami, and Tender Loving Care (as a part of evening of Heins’s short plays at the Medicine Show theatre), and The Theory of Color. Harrington has adapted and directed Chekhov’s “The Kiss” and Sherwood Anderson’s “The Philosopher” for the stage (both produced for Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab/the Culture Project festivals). As scholar and critic, Harrington’s work has appeared in Dissent magazine, First of the Month, Upstart Crow, Shakespeare Criticism, and Literary Themes for Students: War and Peace. Harrington teaches acting Shakespeare at HB studio and has taught at Clemson University and NYU’s Gallatin School. He was an original member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and a participant in the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit.
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