Alex Beard

Alex holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Virginia Tech and has trained at the Second City Conservatory and iO Training Center in Chicago. He is currently an ensemble member of WIT’s Hypothesis, and has been performing and teaching improvisational theatre for over 15 years. Alex coaches high school improvisational theatre ensembles in Northern Virginia and teaches applied improvisation workshops for businesses, NPOs, and government organizations with his company Beard Management. In 2017 Alex was awarded the Virginia Recreation & Park Society’s Best New Special Event for Populations Greater than 100,000 for the creation of LoCo ImprovFest – a youth arts festival in Loudoun County designed to combat the rise in teen suicide through strengthening economic supports, promoting connectedness, and creating protective environments for creative expression and personal growth.

He is driven to push his students to explore their honest emotional state, to live in the moment, and to make real connections with their scene partner(s) and audience. He strives to create “brave spaces” for his students, give lasting notes, and have some laughs so that we all may transcend to the level of gods and poets together.

Alex has appeared in the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage New Play Festival, iOs New Team Smell, WIT’s Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament, the San Diego Improv Festival, Philly Improv Festival, District Improv Festival, and Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre’s Del Close Marathon.