Alexis Gregory
Alexis Gregory is London based playwright, performer, director and producer. He is the writer and star of Riot Act.
Alexis’ plays, performed in theatres and a variety of alternative performance spaces, include his debut, in which he played the co-lead; Slap directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE (Theatre Royal Stratford East / ‘pop-up’ performances at Channel 4’s London HQ, – the channels first ever onsite theatrical presentation / Concrete – Shoreditch, warehouse space); cross-platform verbatim piece on LGBT youth homelessness Safe (Soho Theatre / London Theatre Workshop / Reading Rep / Norwich Theatre Royal – self-directed); Sex/Crime (Soho Theatre, January 2020 / The Glory, alternative East- End queer venue) in which he acted opposite alternative drag legend Jonny Woo; and his critically acclaimed self-performed solo verbatim piece on queer activism through the ages, Riot Act, directed by Beadle-Blair. He is currently Arts Council England funded to research, write and develop his new play Instrumental and also ACE funded to direct and produce a digital version of Safe for early ’21 release, filmed at and in partnership with Park Theatre. Over lockdown, Alexis also directed and coproduced online digital theatre pieces Declan (The Actors Centre), flagged up by The Guardian as one of their top online lockdown picks, and a series of online monologues for Jonny Woo’s new theatre project Silvertown. His work has been funded multiple times by Arts Council England, his plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Attitude Magazine previously media-partnered on Safe and Riot Act.
Recent acting credits include the co-lead in the short Mankind (Boys On Film 20, Peccadillo, DVD and streaming) exec-produced by Stephen Fry, and a guest role over several episodes of LGBT series The Grass Is Always Grindr (Amazon Prime / web-series version on Youtube – current series views equal eight million plus).