Alexander Kveton

Alexander Kveton

Alexander's plays have been performed in New York City, as well as across the country and in the UK. He has worked with theatre companies such as Theater Reconstruction Ensemble, Fresh Ground Pepper, Missing Bolts Productions, NoPassport Theatre Alliance, Story People Theatre Group, Nylon Fusion Collective, and Altruistic Theatre Company, as well as with AFTER ORLANDO: A Global Theatre Action. His short...
Alexander's plays have been performed in New York City, as well as across the country and in the UK. He has worked with theatre companies such as Theater Reconstruction Ensemble, Fresh Ground Pepper, Missing Bolts Productions, NoPassport Theatre Alliance, Story People Theatre Group, Nylon Fusion Collective, and Altruistic Theatre Company, as well as with AFTER ORLANDO: A Global Theatre Action. His short film, "The Short Goodbye," was selected for the New York Shorts International Film Festival and the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival.

Along the way, he has lived in Montana to work on a ranch, and in Italy to study Commedia dell’Arte. He also co-founded a children’s company Turtle Dance Music, in which he performed inclusive music shows for children and children with disabilities in libraries in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, and developed arts-integrated education programs for public schools in Hartford, CT.

He received his MFA in Playwriting at The New School for Drama.

Plays

  • Feesh: A Memory Play by Alexander Kveton
    Cast: 
    3–6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: fish, memory + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental
    Keyword: fish, memory, absurd comedy, Existential Absurdism
    Two fish are caught and thrown into a livewell. Problem is they don't remember anything for very long...
  • Masters by Alexander Kveton
    Cast: 
    10
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: graduate school, institutional racism + 6 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: graduate school, institutional racism, acting class, abuse of power, blame, social media, tokenism, American Theatre
    The all white cis-male acting class in a graduate school has held a meeting to discuss whether to stand up against their production of "Othello" with the title character played by a white male. It doesn't end well. Now, as word spreads and the board becomes uneasy, the administration and department heads are called to a meeting to determine what to do with those students, as well as the fate of the school.
  • Allies by Alexander Kveton
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Toxic Masculinity, internalized misogyny + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: Toxic Masculinity, internalized misogyny, internalized racism, American Theatre, acting, allyship, Shakespeare, graduate school, social justice
    At a graduate drama program in New York City, an all-white acting class have just had auditions for their Shakespeare project: Othello. While they are uncomfortable, the men are still resistant to take a stand with the women against the production. Now facing backlash, they are called to an affinity group meeting to figure out how to be an effective ally, and ultimately what their place is now.
  • Dean of Students by Alexander Kveton
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: adaptation, drama
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    Keyword: prep school, Toxic Masculinity + 6 more
    Genre: adaptation, drama
    Keyword: prep school, Toxic Masculinity, Campus sexual assault, Past Transgressions, affair, marriage, consent, Henryk Ibsen
    It’s been one year since a freshman girl was raped during the Senior tradition of Salute at Hanover. An exposé about the incident suggesting more revelations about the school has come out right before alumni weekend. The old dean of students is getting a dormitory dedicated to him, yet still fears the young are coming for him, and does his best to control those around him. When a former student returns after...
    It’s been one year since a freshman girl was raped during the Senior tradition of Salute at Hanover. An exposé about the incident suggesting more revelations about the school has come out right before alumni weekend. The old dean of students is getting a dormitory dedicated to him, yet still fears the young are coming for him, and does his best to control those around him. When a former student returns after ten years, he confronted with past transgressions and is unwittingly led to own destruction.
  • Salute by Alexander Kveton
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: prep school, Toxic Masculinity + 3 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: prep school, Toxic Masculinity, Campus sexual assault, consent, rape culture
    It’s spring at Hanover Academy, which marks the beginning of Salute, a tradition in which seniors rush to hook up with as many freshmen as possible before graduating. When a senior boy and a freshman girl think they actually might be in love, their friends and faculty are so imbedded in this salacious culture that the two are inevitably hurdled towards tragedy.
  • Consumed by Alexander Kveton
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    9
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: family, Past Transgressions + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: family, Past Transgressions, dinner, age difference, consent, sexual assault
    Luke has come home for a visit, but is strangely quiet. His mother thinks it’s a good time to host a big dinner. When an unexpected and last-minute guest arrives, the innocent get-together cracks open the traumatic cycles that haunts the family, and brings mother and son to a crossroad.
  • The Intern of Two Startups by Alexander Kveton
    Cast: 
    8–10
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: office, disguise + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, commedia dell'arte, farce
    Keyword: office, disguise, gender politics, gender norms, modern, negging
    Cory is stuck in an work-from-home internship that she only got because she lied that she was a man. When she stumbles on a job she may be perfect for, she fakes her way into an interview. Unfortunately for her, this new company is merging with the company she already works for, and her boss wants to call in her male alter ego for the job. Now she must pretend to be both people, and not lose any of her jobs.