Alex Franz Zehetbauer (born 1990 in Brooklyn) is a sonic choreographer, performance artist, and singer currently based in Vienna. Critics have called him: an angel, a swamp monster, and a red-eyed demon. He studied vocal performance, choreography, acting and composition at the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam. Alex has collaborated with artists such as Phillip Gehmacher, Jen Rosenblit, Taylor Mac, Richard Foreman, and Alix Eynaudi. Alex has been awarded the BKA Startstipendium für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (2018) and the danceWEB Scholarship (2019). His work Brunnentroll (2021), a concert performance in public fountains was funded by KÖR Kunst im Öffentlichem Raum Wien. As of 2022 Alex is part of Freischwimmen, an international production platform for performance and theater.
