CONRAD ALEXANDROWICZ is a director, writer and choreographer, and the artistic director of Wild Excursions Performance. Originally from Toronto, he performed with a number of Canadian dance companies, principally Dancemakers, which he joined in 1982, and 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. To date he has created over forty-five dance and physical-theatre works, some of which have been presented across Canada, in New York City, France and the U.K.

In 1994 he moved to Vancouver where he founded Wild Excursions Performance. His play for two men called The Wines of Tuscany was produced three times in Vancouver, in Calgary, Victoria and Edmonton, and at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. It won Jessie, Dora and Sterling Awards. Other credits from this time include Dance, Little Lady! a satirical cabaret about women, dance, and the patriarchy, and Passion: Elysian Fields, his first full-length play, co-produced with Touchstone Theatre.

In 2002 he completed an M.F.A. in Directing at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and returned to Vancouver to restart the company and his freelance professional career. His most recent completed work is The Singer Falls Silent, a performance piece about the failure of language to encompass the phenomenal world. It won the Critics’ Choice Award for Innovation at the 2004 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.

Recent projects include the remount of Quicken, a co-production of Studio 58 and the Gateway Theatre, and Transit Lounge, a collective creation about home and exile that was part of the Theatre @UBC season. Upcoming: the production of a new play for five actors called Beggars Would Ride, and the remount of Dance, Little Lady! At the 2006 Chutzpah! Festival.

Wild Excursions Performance
Wild Excursions Performance was founded in Vancouver in January of 1995 by Conrad Alexandrowicz. Originally from Toronto, where he began his creative career while working with Dancemakers, Mr. Alexandrowicz went on to enjoy success as an independent choreographer and writer with a national profile. He is widely credited with having pioneered a form of interdisciplinary performance that is based in dance, but that makes extensive use of original or adapted text in ways that are highly effective theatrically. His work has been presented across Canada, in New York City, in France and the United Kingdom. Wild Excursions has enjoyed considerable success over the years, establishing an enviable reputation locally and nationally for high artistic achievement and integrity. Among others, the company’s productions have included The Wines of Tuscany, which toured across Canada and received numerous awards; and Dance, Little Lady, a satirical cabaret about women, dance and the patriarchy. The company’s most recent work is a performance piece for five actors entitled The Singer Falls Silent that considers the limitations of language to encompass the phenomenal world. It won the Critics’ Choice Award for Innovation at the 2004 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.