ALEC DUFFY

Alec Duffy is an OBIE-winning theater-maker and founder of the company Hoi Polloi, with a body of work that includes Celine Song’s Family (Brooklyn, 2024), Robert Quillen Camp’s White on White (JACK, 2022), Toshiki Okada’s Quiet, Comfort (JACK, 2016), All Hands (Incubator Arts Project, 2012), and The Less We Talk (Incubator Arts Project, 2009). He shared an OBIE Award for Three Pianos, a paean to Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, co-written and performed with Dave Malloy and Rick Burkhardt, directed by Rachel Chavkin, and produced at A.R.T. and New York Theatre Workshop. He directed acclaimed productions of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral in Brooklyn, and the U.S. premiere of Yukio Shiba’s Our Planet at Japan Society. His production of Moto Osada’s opera Four Nights of Dream premiered at Japan Society in 2017 and toured to the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan.

He founded the theater JACK in 2012, and led it for ten years before transitioning out of leadership. During his time at JACK, he co-conceived and led programs such as Forward Ferguson, Reparations365, and Radical Acts, and curated the first professional productions of theater-makers such as Oscar-nominated writer/director Celine Song, director Lileana Blain-Cruz, director Knud Adams, writer Justin Kuritzkes, entertainer Ikechukwu Ufomadu, among others.

Duffy was a Drama League Directing Fellow, and attended Duke University and the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris.