Biography
Alexander Thomas. Married to a wife who works for the Foreign Service, American-born Alexander Thomas has lived in London, Berlin, and currently in Astoria, New York. His solo play, Throw Pitchfork, premiered off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop and ran regionally at the Kitchen Theater in Ithaca, NY, and won a Special Honors Award at the Thespis International Monodrama Festival in Kiel, Germany.
He co-wrote Black Stuff, a satiric look at black identity in America which performed at Highways Performance Space, National Black Theater Festival, New York Fringe Festival and The Kitchen Theater.
He is one of the contributing writers for The American Slavery Project: Unheard Voices, a theatrical event giving voice to the 419 slaves buried in the unmarked graves discovered at the African Burial Grounds in New York.
His latest play Schwarz Gemacht or How Klaus Found His Blackness was produced spring of 2014 at the English Theatre of Berlin, in Berlin Germany.
