Alex Correia, is a New York based theatre and film director. His body of work covers directing the classics and working on new play development. Loves working on scripts that tickle your funny bone and pulls at your heart strings. He is also an educator, actor, producer and most recently a film editor.

Alex is a graduate of the Juilliard School Directing Program where he received the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, and holds a BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College. He served as Resident Director at INTAR Theatre during the 2008/09 Season and was Director of INTAR’s Actors Collective from 2006 to 2009.  Alex has been a guest director at The Juilliard School, NYU’s MFA Dramatic Writing Program, Hunter College, Lee Strasburg Institute and at the LARK Play Development Center in NYC.

NY Directing Credits include: Coriolanus at the Juilliard School, Adults Only by Dean Imperial, Song for the Disappeared by Tanya Saracho, The Leak by Fernanda Coppel, and Where’s My Money by John Patrick Shanley.

Assisting Directing Credits include Robin Hood directed by Joel Sass (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Cherry Orchard directed by Andrei Belgrader (Classic Stage Company 2011), Scapin by Moliere directed by Christopher Bayes at the Intiman Theater (Seattle) & The Court Theater (Chicago), and Lysistrata by Aristophanes directed by Andrei Serban at A.R.T. (Boston).

Alex currently teaches Scene Study for the BFA program at the New School for Drama, Marymount Manhattan College, and SUNY Purchase.