THE POTTER'S FIELD
Executive Producer
What happens to the homeless when they die? The Potter's Field is a documentary that follows a group of high school students in Louisville, KY who volunteer to give funeral services for the homeless, unknown and otherwise indigent members in their community.
/ Creative Team
directed by
Edward Heavrin
Co-Directed by
Nick Weis
executive producer
Gill Holland
Alex Basco Koch
BUYER & CELLAR
Critically acclaimed year-long run in New York at the Barrow Street theater and a national tour.
/ Production History
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
March 12 - May 2, 2015
National Tour
2014 - 2015
Barrow Street Theatre
June 2013 - 2014
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
March 20 - May 12, 2013
/ Creative Team
directed by
Stephen Brackett
scenic design
Andrew Boyce
costume design
Jessica Pabst
lighting design
Eric Southern
sound design
Stowe Nelson
/ Projection Team
designer
Alex Basco Koch
associate
John Erickson (Westport Country Playhouse)
Matthew Haber (Barrow Street & Tour)
Paul Piekarz (Rattlestick)
INVISIBLE MAN
Chris McElroen's world premiere production of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in Chicago, Washington DC & Boston.
"I am an invisible man" starts the soul-searching, identity-bending world premiere production of Ralph Ellison’s landmark American novel. The projection design plays an integral role in crafting the interior and exterior life of the protagonist in the ambitious production with content culled from thousands of hours of archival footage, art, and photography remixed and repurposed.
/ Production History
Huntington Theatre, Boston
January 4 - February 3, 2013
Studio Theatre, Washington DC
September 5 - October 28, 2012
Court Theatre, Chicago
Jaunary 12 – February 19, 2012
/ Creative Team
director
Chris McElroen
scenic designer
Troy Hourie
lighting designer
Mary Louise Geiger
costume designer
Kathleen Geldard
sound designer
David Remedios
/ Projection Team
designer
Alex Basco Koch
associate
Matthew Haber (Huntington)
Dave Tennent (Studio)
Rasean Davonte Johnson (Court)
sequence editor & Illustrations
Kate Freer (Huntington & Studio)
sequence editor
Anna Henson (Court)
sequence animation
Lucia J. Lee
research assistant
Claire Karoff
Chris Kurtz
P.S. JONES AND THE FROZEN CITY
A bizarre and wonderful comic book comes to life on stage.
/ Production History
The New Ohio Theatre
December 3 - 23, 2012
/ Creative Team
director
José Zayas
playwright
Robert Askins
scenic designer
Jason Simms
lighting designer
Ryan O’Gara
costumes
Carla Bellisio
sound designer
Jane Shaw & Emma Wilk
Puppet design
Eric Wright & The Puppet Kitchen
/ Projection Team
designers
Alex Basco Koch & Dave Tennent
illustrator
Katherine Freer
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Live video feeds and an entire town miniature built, shot, and projected.
/ Production History
Center Stage, Baltimore
September 19 - October 21, 2012
/ Creative Team
director
Kwame Kwei-Armah
scenic design
Riccardo Hernandez
lighting designer
Michelle Habeck
sound design
Ryan Rumery
costume designer
David Burdick
/ Projection Team
designer
Alex Koch
miniature designer
Claire Karoff
miniature director of photography
Slater Brauns
miniature electrician
Jon Bremner
programmer
Stew Ives
OVERDUE
Producer & Editor
Written & Directed by Arian Moayed Story by Omar Metwally & Arian Moayed Produced by Waterwell Films Produced by Slater Brauns Alex Koch Krissy Shields Director of Photography Sean Mattison Edited by Alex Koch Music Composed by Lauren Cregor Devine Title Photography by Kate Freer
/ Creative Team
written & directed by
Arian Moayed
story by
Omar Metwally & Arian Moayed
produced by
Waterwell Films
produced by
Slater Brauns
Alex Basco Koch
Krissy Shields
director of photography
Sean Mattison
edited by
Alex Basco Koch
music composed by
Lauren Cregor Devine
title photography by
Kate Freer
GOODBAR
Projection Design
“The video design, by Alex Koch, plays the major supporting role. The most striking moment integrates imagery and action: Ms. Cheek hunches before an image of Theresa’s bed, poetically suggesting a woman shrunk to the size of a stuffed animal on her pillow, as her sister tries to cheer her up. Other video sequences — montages of dance floors and bar crawls, and the culminating re-creation of Theresa’s murder — subvert the period ambience of the music to suggest that today’s casual hookup scene shares the same dangerous undertow that the bar scene of the 1970s did.”
/ Creative Team
created by
Waterwell & Bambï
director
Arian Moayed
scenic design
Nick Benacerraf
lighting design
Adam Frank
costume design
Erik Bergran
/ Production History
Under the Radar, The Public Theatre
January 2012
Ideal Glass Gallery, NYC Residency
December 2010 - July 2011
SummerStage, Lower East Side Bandshell
August 2010
/ Projection Team
designer, director of photography & editor
Alex Basco Koch
'Samurai' additional animator
Lucia J. Lee
'Goodbar' additional editor
Kate Freer
'Scoliosis' illustrator
Ethan Gould
'Murder Sequence' director of photography
Nathan West
‘Murder sequence’ assistant camera
Reagan Herr
fight choreographer
Turner Smith
‘Dogs on the Dance Floor’ video painting
Shantell Martin
‘Persona’ animator
Kyle McCulloch
roach animator
Barry Steele
additional Isadora programmer
David Tirosh
Wesley Turner-Harris
live camera op
Joaquín Vergara
Music and video from the live concept album GOODBAR 2012 Under the Radar Festival @ The Public, NYC
CHAOS MANOR
A site-specific immersive installation spanning half a block, four stories high, in Brooklyn, NY.
Chaos Manor was a multimedia installation using the Invisible Dog Arts Center in Brooklyn as an instrument to play the story of iconic photo journalist W. Eugene Smith, and his particular American moment, by sampling the 10,000 photographs and hundreds of hours of audio recordings he made at 821 Sixth Avenue between 1957 - 1964.
The exterior of the building was mapped with archival imagery and animation while layers of recorded and live sound and video were woven inside twenty-two windows. Rear projections within each window created stunning depth telling the story of the inhabitants.
/ Creative Team
directed by
Christopher McElroen
projection design
Alex Basco Koch, Kate Freer, Dave Tennent
sound design
Dominic Mekky
musical director
Levon Henry
photographers
Jason Goodman, Kate Joyce
/ Production History
The Invisible Dog Arts Center, Brooklyn
September 2011
FEEDER: A LOVE STORY
Live-video, narrative montages and hand-crafted Brooklyn geography. Nominated for an NY Innovative Theatre Award.
/ Production History
HERE Arts Center
March 6 - 26, 2011
/ Creative Team
director
José Zayas
playwright
James Carter
scenic designer
Peter Ksander
lighting designer
Bruce Steinberg
sound designer
David Margolin Lawson
costume designer
Suzanne Chesney
/ Projection Team
designer
Alex Basco Koch
associate
Dave Tennent
REENTRY
New York premiere and multi-year national tour. Engaged veterans with a remix of their own words.
/ Production History
Actors Theatre of Louisville
November 15 - December 16, 2011
Round House, Washington DC
October 17 - 30, 2011
Center Stage, Baltimore
November 15 - December 16, 2010
Urban Stages, New York City
January 11 - March 7, 2010
/ Creative Team
director
KJ Sanchez
playwrights
KJ Sanchez &
Emily Ackerman
scenic & costume Designer
Marion Williams
lighting designer
Russell H. Champa
Thom Weaver (Urban Stages)
sound designer
Zach Williamson
/ Projection Team
designer
Alex Basco Koch
associate
Andrew Puccio
IRENA’S VOW
On Broadway at the Walter Kerr.
“The most distinctive aspect of the production design is Alex Koch’s projections, a parade of archival images that effortlessly evoke the upheaval and terror of those years – ”
/ Production History
Walter Kerr, Broadway
March 29 - June 28, 2009
Baruch Performing Arts Center
September 7 - November 2, 2008
/ Creative Team
director
Michael Parva
written by
Dan Gordon
scenic designer
Kevin Judge
lighting designer
David Castaneda
costume designer
Astrid Brucker
sound designer
Quentin Chiappetta
/ Projection Team
designer
Alex Basco Koch
associate
David Tirosh (Broadway)
Sean Mattison (Baruch)
additional photography
Sean Mattison
LA CASA DE LOS ESPIRITUS
Multi-year award-winning run in New York and productions in Washington DC, Chile, and Costa Rica.
La Casa de los Espiritus is Caridad Svich’s deeply entertaining, heart-breaking and surprising adaption of Isabelle Allende’s novel. The production, originally performed at Repertorio Espanol directed by long-time Koch-collaborator Jose Zayas, has toured throughout Chile and played sold-out houses in Santiago, Chile, Washington, DC, and San Jose, Costa Rica. It is appropriate that a play spanning generations and parsing interpretations of morality, unique personality and love should have so many incarnations; each has been an opportunity to reexamine the relationship of projection to actors as a story-telling medium with a definitive point of view.
The GALA Theatre production was featured in the 2013 May/June issue of American Theatre Magazine.
/ Production History
Teatro Espressivo, San José, Costa Rica
February - May, 2014
GALA Theatre, Washington DC
February, 2013
Teatro Mori Parque Arauco, Santiago, Chile
May, 2010
Repertorio Espanol, New York City
March, 2009
/ Creative Team
director
Jose Zayas
playwright
Caridad Svich
scenic designer
Elizabeth Jenkins McFadden (GALA Theatre, Washington DC)
Robert Federico (Repertorio Espanol)
costume designer
Ivania Stack (GALA Theatre, Washington DC)
Robert Federico (Repertorio Espanol)
lighting designer
Joseph Walls (GALA Theatre, Washington DC)
Robert Federico (Repertorio Espanol)
sound designer
Jane Shaw (GALA Theatre, Washington DC; Espressivo Theatre, San Jose, Costa Rica)
David Lawson (Repertorio Espanol)
/ Projection Team
designer
Alex Basco Koch
illustrator (architectural drawings)
Claire Karoff
mobile and miniature Artist
Sven Henry Nelson
illustrator (gouache drawings)
Raoul Anchondo
calligrapher
Jocelyn O'Shea
OXFORD ROOF CLIMBER'S REBELLION
Archival photography elements reconstructed into a 3D world with flyovers and subtle scene shifts.
/ Production History
Capitol Repertory Theatre, Albany
January 25 - February 6, 2009
Urban Stages
October 13 - November 18, 2007
/ Creative Team
director
Roger Danforth
playwright
Stephen Massicotte
projection design
Alex Basco Koch
scenic designer
Roman Tatarowicz
costume designer
David Toser
lighting designer
Josh Bradford
sound designer
Daniel Baker & David Thomas