As a Freelance Producer Alex Critoph has produced a varied body of work including; ViSiBLE Theatre Ensembles Five Characters in Search of a Good Night’s Sleep Directed by Mike Alfreds at Southwark Playhouse, Salt Water-Moon directed by Peter Kavanaugh at The Finborough Theatre and We’ll Dance on the Ash of the Apocalypse Directed by Melissa-Kelly Franklin at The Park Theatre.
Across 2024 – 2025 she has produced three Arts Council England Funded R&D projects: Bury Your Brothers Directed by Ben Quashie, in partnership with New Works at The Liverpool Everyman Playhouse, which included a Rehearsed Reading at The Bush Theatre, Cancer B*tch! Directed by Lydia McKinley which was a seed commission from OffBeat at The Oxford Playhouse and Fresh Knickers directed by Heather Davis, a menopause musical with research and outreach programmes taking place in Essex.
Women’s Writes is Alex’s brainchild and started life in 2019 as a New Writing Night for Female-Identifying and non-binary playwrights. It played it’s first sold out show at The Arcola Theatre and then headed to VAULT Festival 2020, since then she’s curated and produced over 40 short plays across New Writing fests at VAULT, Arcola and the ONCOMM Nominated Women’s Writes Online Festival named in The Guardian as one of the ‘Hottest front room seats for online Theatre’ in lockdown. https://www.
Since then, Women’s Writes has taken full length work to the Park Theatre’s Come What May Festival and is developing new work for 2026.
She offers consultancy sessions for Early Career Creatives, looking for advice in:
– Under 30K ACE Bids
– Self Producing for writers/ other creatives
– Reworking your Synopsis/ pitch pack for venues
– Applying for Development Schemes
– Writing a Press Release
– Completing your own Marketing / Social Media