ALEXANDER FORSYTH (he/him) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist with focuses in the performing, written, and visual arts, living and working on the stolen traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations. Both Alex and the company he founded – K.I.A. Productions – originate in ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐊᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ on the traditional territories of the Nehiyaw, Denesuliné, Nakota Sioux, Anishinaabe, and Niitsitapi Nations and within the Métis homelands and Métis Nation of Alberta Region 4. Here he began writing, producing, and performing plays that have toured nationally and internationally in collaboration with his wife and co-artistic director Keltie Forsyth.
Acting credits include Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (WB), Charmed (CBS), Genetic Drift (Pi Theatre), and Juice (The Cultch). Playwrighting credits include 7 Ways to Die, a love story (with Keltie Forsyth), Bedlam (Junior Jester Cap Award, Calgary Fringe Festival), and Whiskey, Gin, and Pints of Beer.
Alex holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from East 15 Acting School (London, UK) and a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Creative Writing from the University of Alberta.