The Killing Game
February 13–22, 2025

Conrad Alexandrowicz is a Professor in the Department of Theatre, where he teaches movement and physical theatre for actors and directs department productions. He holds a BFA in Dance from York University and an MFA in Directing from the University of Alberta. Originally from Toronto, he performed with a number of Canadian dance companies, principally Dancemakers, where he began to produce his own work, much of which featured original text. He left the company in 1987 to choreograph, direct and perform independently. In 1995, he founded Wild Excursions Performance as the vehicle for his creative endeavours.

Over a decades-long career in performance, he migrated from dance to theatre and has been a dancer, dance critic, choreographer, writer of texts for dance, playwright, actor, director and producer. He created over fifty dance- and physical theatre works, some of which were presented across Canada, as well as internationally, mainly under the producing auspices of Wild Excursions Performance. He and his work have been recognized with Jessie, Sterling and Dora Awards.

Previous to his appointment at the University of Victoria in 2008, he taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver Film School and Capilano College, and directed at Douglas College and Studio 58.

He specializes in the creation of varieties of interdisciplinary performance that address subjects central to the human journey: issues of relationship, gender and power, and the nature of the performance event itself. Between 2012 and 2016, he explored the staging of poetry with actors, dancers and musicians by means of a substantial grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), in collaboration with noted Canadian poets Lorna Crozier and Erín Moure.

Since his appointment at UVic he has turned to academic writing, and his work has been published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Studies in Theatre and Performance, and Theatre Topics. His first book, Acting Queer: Gender Dissidence and the Subversion of Realism, was published by Palgrave in February 2020. He is currently committed to exploring the possibilities for transformation of theatre education in response to the climate crisis. The co-edited collection that he instigated, and to which he contributed, entitled Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis, was published by Routledge in May 2021. He has just submitted the manuscript of another book for Routledge about actor training in the face of linked environmental crises, entitled Performing the Nonhuman: Towards a Theatre of Transformation. Currently, he is at work on a chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, focussing on gay Canadian theatre.