Alex-Christian Lucas

Alex-Christian Lucas is a two-time Broadway World Award Winning actor, writer, theatre researcher, and historian, who has been performing since he was eight years old. He is a proud New Orleans native and a member of Equity UK, the American Guild of Musical Artists, the American Society for Theatre Research, and the New Orleans Opera Chorus. He is a crossover artist who has performed in opera, musical theatre, and British pantomime, drawing inspiration from his hometown's rich cultural, historical, and musical traditions.  He graduated in May 2020 from Loyola University New Orleans with his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and minor in Theatre Arts, and in March 2022 from the University of London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with his MA in Music Theatre.

He is the recipient of the 2017 Broadway World New Orleans Award for Best Leading Actor in a Local Musical for originating the role of Serpent in the world premiere of Garden: An Original Love Story in March of that year with Dumb Ox Productions and later won the same award in 2019 for his portrayal of the Preacher in Loyola’s production of Violet the Musical. Some of his favorite roles include Lord Pinkleton in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, the Warm-Up Guy in Scotch Egg, Dave the Cadillac Car Singer in Dreamgirls, and the Preacher in Violet. He enjoys originating new roles, having portrayed Mauritz Stiller/Leopold Stokowski in the world premiere production of Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum’s Garbo and Me at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in November 2021 and created the Narrator in the world premiere stage adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Moise and the World of Reason at the 2022 Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival.

Alex-Christian has trained in musical both theatre nationally in New York City with Open Jar Institute and the American Theatre Wing’s SpringBoardNYC, as well as internationally at Brock University in Canada, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and with the International Performing Arts Institute (IPAI) in Germany. His undergraduate thesis called “Assassin in the Crescent City: The Untold Story of John Wilkes Booth on his only visit to New Orleans in the Spring of 1864” is a culmination of his passion for history, theatre, music, and research and was published in fall of 2020 by John Hopkins University’s Macksey Symposium and Journal. Since then, Alex-Christian has instigated original research for a book entitled: The Evolution of the Broadway Musical Ensemble: Stories of its Grandeur and Ebb from the Stage and Beyond. He utilized established academic reference, original numerical research, and oral histories, all of which he personally collated and gathered from an impressive number and calibre of respondents: Susan Stroman, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Michael Cerveris, and Jamie DeRoy, to name a few. He has already presented a small portion of this work in conference in the US at the 2022 BroadwayCon and continues to develop the research and book for future publication.

Since December of 2020, he has lived full time in the UK, where he completed two runs of the Off-West End Covid parody musical, Scotch Egg, in January and May of 2021, and toured as Prince Charming in British Pantomime’s 2022 Christmas Panto, Cinderella.  Alex-Christian also conceived, co-wrote the book for, and performs his new one-man-musical, Every Man a King: A New Orleans Jazz Fable, based on the 1930s era populist, socialist dictator-Governor of his home state, Huey P. Long, and featuring an original score with Louisiana flair. He continues to workshop and develop this show along with his creative team in both London and New Orleans, with the aim of mounting a full production.

Alex-Christian is an avid advocate and supporter of the arts. He aims to see as much theatre as possible, frequenting Broadway, West End, and the many other smaller theaters and productions surrounding them and around the world. In an effort to help others, he enjoys service work and advocating for social justice in his community, city, and state by working with local organizations, such as Covenant House, on issues like homelessness, poverty, human trafficking, and other quality of life concerns.