Alexander Lvovsky
Alexander Lvovsky was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and now works between Nashville and Los Angeles. He is drawn to stories that find the human heart inside grand, unlikely situations. To characters who pursue something magnificent at considerable personal cost. To the question of what we owe each other, and what it means to spend a life well.
Trained in both classical theatre and contemporary film, he brings a dual sensibility to everything he touches. Over a dozen Los Angeles regional theatre productions, West Valley Theater Award recognition, and Los Angeles Times critic picks gave him a foundation built on live performance, on the electricity of an audience leaning forward in the dark. But his instinct was always cinematic, and it always understood that comedy and drama are not opposites. They are partners.
As a writer, director, and actor, he made his feature debut with Operation Belvis Bash (2011), a comedy-musical he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in. Warmly received as an original and genuinely funny film, it assembled an eclectic cast including Corey Feldman, Frank Stallone, Daniel Baldwin, Mark Metcalf, and The Iron Sheik, earning comparisons to the classic road comedies of Hope and Crosby. As an actor, his credits include Mike Nichols' Charlie Wilson's War (2007), alongside Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
His current project, Dorian The Immortal, is the work of a filmmaker who has spent a lifetime asking the same questions the material asks. It takes Oscar Wilde's most enduring story and sets it in a gothic, steampunk Victorian world. A dark fantasy jukebox musical powered by the songs that gave a generation its inner life. Queen. Evanescence. Linkin Park. My Chemical Romance. U2. Muse. The music does not decorate the story. It drives it, carrying the longing, the darkness and the redemption that Wilde mapped in prose and that these songs mapped in three-minute eternities. Screenplay readers have called it a millennial anthem. One wrote simply: the best screenplay I ever read.
Alexander is also an accomplished editor and producer, bringing a comprehensive understanding of the creative process from every angle. He believes that the most powerful films make us think, move us to dance, stop us in our tracks, and help us see ourselves.
