Alex Romania is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and filmmaker. His work delves into unknown and unimaginable spaces so that he might explore humanity there and “liberate the governed body.” Romania is grateful for the wealth of creativity over a decade of experimentation in live performance has brought them and looks forward to continuing this research through developing films, plays, and punk operas, including a memoir, a sci-fi suspense feature, a compilation of poetry and the ever-evolving album.
Romania is a current Franklin Furnace Fund recipient, 2024 Djerassi resident artist, MacDowell Fellow, 2023 Center for Performance Research AIR, and 2018-2020 Movement Research AIR. Other residencies include the Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Abrons Arts Center, Chez Bushwick, Chashama, Tofte Lake Center, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Old Furnace Artist Residency.
Some current projects include co-directing the film RECKONING with Stacy Lynn Smith, the multidisciplinary opera Face Eaters, co-directorship of the experimental documentary Patch the Sky with Five Colored Stones conceived by choreographer Daria Faïn, a collaborative short entitled Mira, Mira, Mira! with Daniela Fabrizi and the Re Hecho community in the Lower East Side.
Romania performed in works by Kathy Westwater from 2013 to 2023, and in works by Simone Forti, Éva Mag, Eddie Peake, Andy de Groat, and Catherine Galasso. They’ve designed video within several works by Antonio Ramos and worked on films with Marin Media Labs, TAAMAS / Sarah Riggs, Trixie Films / Therese Shechter, Christopher Unpezverde Nuñez, Martita Abril, and Sarah White-Ayòn.
At MacDowell in 2022, Romania created and edited a new poetic work which is the foundation of a new interdisciplinary work spanning music, text, art object, video, and live performance.
At MacDowell in 2025, Romania worked with Stacy Lynn Smith on editing their feature film RECKONING which has been in the making since 2019. They sifted through years of footage and took a day to travel to NYC to capture an additional scene for the film. Romania and Smith look forward to submitting RECKONING to film festivals and premiering as soon as editing is complete. The duo also continued to develop a live performance entitled fame hOle; an apocalyptic punk space opera set in a 2014 Prius V disguised as an interdimensional gold Cyber Truck. They began to develop a photo series adjacent to the project in which they plan to drive the "Cyber Prius" and perform across the U.S., photographing the vehicle at great American landscapes, creating a visual commentary on the intertwined state of politics, capitalism, and the climate.
