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Alex was born in the Isle of Man just short of thirty years ago and although he hasn’t lived there for nearly a third of that time he tries to return there as often as he can.
Whilst at school he discovered a flare and love for drama and acting. When he told his parents he wanted to try and make a living as an actor they asked him to prove that he was up to it. He directed and stared in an all male production of Hamlet and they’ve supported him ever since.
He studied drama with the National Youth Theatre, in Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Guildford School of Acting where he won the Principal’s Acting Award, and has toured the country and abroad extensively, working in theatre, television, film and radio in companies ranging from the Royal Shakespeare Company to the B.B.C.
During most of this time Alex was writing, whether it was poetry or short fiction, but it was in the autumn of 2002 that the idea of bringing together some of his favourite folk tales from his childhood into a story of his own came to him, and so telling the story of Fynoderee began.
Alex is still an actor and lives in south-east London.
