Alex Basco Koch

About

Alex designs projections for concerts, musicals, plays, films, and immersive art events. His work can be seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, across the US, in Central and South America, Europe, and Japan.

His concert design work includes Mariah Carey's 2023 international Christmas tour, among many festivals with Carey. He created two nights worth of videos to play alongside the Magnetic Fields' international tour 50 Song Memoir and released a dozen of the works as official music videos through Nonesuch Records.

In 2016 Alex's projection design work was featured in two films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival: Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, directed by Academy Award nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady; and Miles Ahead, directed by and starring Don Cheadle.

Alex co-directed Who Knows?, a short film mixing projection, puppetry and live action. His work as a film producer and editor has been seen at the Tribeca Film Festival. He was the director of photography and editor for a series of shorts titled My America Too with director Kwame Kwei-Armah.

His Broadway credits include Be More Chill and Irena's Vow, and he designed Be More Chill for its West End transfer at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. He has been nominated for multiple Drama Desk, Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Jeff, and New York Innovative Theatre Awards.

Alex is an Artistic Associate at the Young Vic in London, a member of United Scenic Artists Local USA 829, and a founding member of Imaginary Media, Staging Film, and Ghost Corporeal.

Awards & Nominations

2023
Lortel Award Nomination The Orchard
2022
Drama Desk Nomination Space Dogs
2022
Outer Critics Circle Nomination Space Dogs
2019
Drama Desk Nomination Be More Chill
2019
Lortel Award Nomination Fireflies / Be More Chill
2019
Outer Critics Circle Nomination Be More Chill
2012
Jeff Award Nomination Invisible Man
2012
NY Innovative Theatre Award Nom. PS Jones and the Frozen City
2011
NY Innovative Theatre Award Nom. Feeder

Selected Credits

Concerts

Broadway & West End

Film

Teaching

  • Part-Time Faculty — The New School (2022–23)
  • Waldman Professor — Emerson (2021–22)
  • Visiting Lecturer — Princeton (2020)
  • Guest Artist — Parsons School of Design

Education

  • Skidmore College, BA: Art History