BIO

​​ALEXANDER GEMIGNANI (he/him/his) is an actor, Artistic Director, music supervisor/music director, orchestrator, arranger, conductor, composer/lyricist, and educator. 

As an actor on Broadway: My Fair Lady (Doolittle), Carousel (Enoch Snow - Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Grammy Nominations), Violet (Father), Chicago (Billy), Les Misérables (Valjean - Drama League nomination), Sweeney Todd (Beadle - Drama Desk nomination), Assassins (Hinckley - Theatre World Award), The People In The Picture (Moishe), Sunday in the Park With George (Boatman/Dennis). 

Off- Broadway: Road Show at the Public (Addison Mizner - Drama League nomination), Headstrong at EST (Nick), and Avenue Q at the Vineyard Theatre (Brian). Favorite Regional: Inherit the Wind (Brady) at the Goodman,  Hamilton in Chicago (King George III, original cast), Big Fish (Edward Bloom) at The Marriott Lincolnshire, The Three Sisters (Andrei) at Cincinnati Playhouse, The Boys From Syracuse (Sergeant) at The Shakespeare Theatre of D.C. and the title character in the world premiere musical Saint-Ex at The Weston Playhouse. T.V./Film: Étoile (AMAZON), Servant (APPLE TV), Empire (FOX - Recurring), Chicago Fire (NBC), Homeland (SHOWTIME - Recurring), The Good Wife (CBS), Empire State (ABC Pilot), the film The Producers (UNIVERSAL), three appearances on The Tony Awards (CBS) and season 5 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as Janusz (AMAZON -Recurring). 

Concerts: The N.Y. Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, The N.Y. Pops at Carnegie Hall, The L.A. Philharmonic at The Hollywood Bowl, and the American Songbook Series at Lincoln Center. His solo show, All At Once, premiered at the Kennedy Center as a part of Barbara Cook’s Spotlight Series. He served as Music Supervisor, Arranger, and Conductor for Here We Are, Sondheim’s final musical (book by David Ives, directed by Joe Mantello). 

As a Music Supervisor, he was represented Off-Broadway with Fiasco Theatre’s production of Merrily We Roll Along at the Roundabout (also penned new orchestrations) and also served as Music Supervisor/Music Director and Conductor for the 2019/2020 revival of West Side Story. Additionally, he conducted the New York Philharmonic on New Year’s Eve 2019 with the concert, Celebrating Sondheim, featuring symphonic suites, which aired on Live From Lincoln Center. 

Other projects include an upcoming new production of john & jen (music supervision and arrangements), Whiskeyland (orchestrations and arrangements) and My Ántonia (orchestrations and co-arrangements), premiering at Theatre Latté Da, Spring 2026. 

As a composer/lyricist, he is developing three new musicals, Diamond Alice (music/lyrics) swingset/moon (music and co-lyrics), and Broken Eggs (lyrics), and has composed the incidental music for several plays. 

He is an Associate Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University and has also served on the faculty of the National Theatre Institute at The O’Neill, NYU Steinhardt, and CAP21. He has been guest faculty for the University Of Michigan, Texas State University, Syracuse University (Tepper), and NYU Tisch School Of The Arts. 

He is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, holds a certificate in Orchestration for Film and TV from Berklee College of Music, and holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The University of Michigan. 

He is a member of Actor’s Equity, SAG/AFTRA and Local 802 AFM. 2018 marked the beginning of his tenure as Artistic Director for the National Music Theater Conference at The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, where he has helped shepherd over 30 new musicals. He is also the Artistic Director of the National Music Theater Institute at the O’Neill, a semester long intensive Music Theatre performance training program. 

His greatest joys are his incredible wife, Erin Ortman, and their beautiful daughter.

PICTURE & RESUME

DEMO

CONTACT