Founding member - Alexander Frank (Director: “The String Puppet”)
Alexander Frank presently studies Film Studies, Political Science and Mass Communication at the University of Zurich. Alongside, as time permits, he works as Assistant Director and Stage Manager for the theatre and performs in various plays – recently as an ensemble member of the Junges Schauspielhaus Zürich. Here, he also rehearses regularly with children and teenagers in the youth drama division of the theatre.
Since 2002 he has been working as Script Supervisor and Assistant Director on several film and TV productions. He originally started this career as an assistant director trainee at the German crime-thriller series “Ein Fall für Zwei”, which currently goes into its 26th season.
Alexander has studied acting, script analysis and rehearsal techniques with Judith Weston in New York, with German director Andreas Dresen and with the “impro-guru” Keith Johnstone. Former teachers also include Dimitri (clownery), Jana Niklaus (voice technique), Liane Jessen (script analysis) and Robert McKee.
Alexander volunteers at the Zoo Zurich and is an active member of the German Society for the Protection and Conservation of Wolves, the WWF and UNICEF.
He has used his voice to speak for radio stations, he has worked as film projectionist at the most wonderful movie theatre in the world (the ‘Caligari’ in Wiesbaden, Germany) and he can teach children the ABC and 4x1. As teenager he used to labour at a cash register in a supermarket and in a warehouse – and last but not least, he knows how to juggle a little bit.
Alexander dislikes tomatoes and he is utterly afraid of monsters beneath his bed. He likes to stand on his balcony while it is raining to listen to his neighbour sing, for he himself can only sing rather terrible.
Alexander was born in 1980. He was raised in Germany, resided a year in the USA, travelled through the world and now lives in Zurich, Switzerland.