Alexander Wells
Actor
Alex Wells has been a member Son of Semele since 2004. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Alex is an actor, director, writer and broadcaster.
Last year he performed as Fresa Girl 2 and the TV Reporter in SOSE's Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart directed by Matthew McCray. In 2005, Alex directed the workshop for SOSE's first company-devised play,
In other venues, Alex played Lance in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the Classical Theatre Lab in West Hollywood and F.W. Benteen in Custer at the LA Veterans' Artists Alliance in Culver City. He was the first Secretary of Defense, James Forestal in Ken Urban's The Absence of Weather for Moving Arts at LATC. In 2003, he co-produced and starred as Oscar Wilde/Lord Goring in the critically acclaimed (LA Weekly "Pick of the Week") An Ideal Husband as Victorian Noir at The Met Theatre. Recent screen work includes, CBS-TV's NUMB3Rs and the independent film, Radio Free Albemuth.
Before coming to LA, Alex performed with the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and in numerous off/off-off Broadway plays, including one he wrote about Vietnam veterans, The War in New Jersey. A million years ago, he toured the country doing Shakespeare.
He is on the artistic advisory board of Culver City Public Theatre, where, since 2000, he has directed classical plays such as The Braggart Soldier by Plautus, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and The Deceived by Gl'Intronati.
Alex studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and holds an MFA in acting from Temple University. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in History from Columbia University. He has been teacher with Imagination Workshop, East LA Classic Theatre and Brentwood School.
When he's not on the stage, he can be heard reporting the news for KABC-AM 790. He has also worked on the air for radio stations in New York, New Jersey and New England. He has written numerous articles about radio for publications such as the Pasadena Star-News, Downtown News, LA Radio Guide, Radio World and the Los Angeles Times.
Alex is married with a daughter in high school.
