Alex Lugo (they/them) is a Black, Queer, & Non-binary artist based in Brooklyn, NY...

While a Sophomore at New York University, Alex joined the third year company of the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour with its original creative team — including Tim Weil (Music Direction) & Marlies Yearby (Choreography).

Alex has since been linked to several new works, since graduating from Tisch School of the Arts as well as on Season Two of Max’s And Just Like That as Toby & while touring the country as a Swing & Assistant Dance Captain on the 1st National Tour of the Tony & Grammy-Winning Best Musical, Hadestown.

This past Fall, Alex premiered Empire Records, a musical based on the 1990s cult-classic film, at the McCarter Theatre Center alongside it’s original screenwriter, Carol Heikkinen, Trip Cullman (Direction), Ellenore Scott (Choreography), and Zoe Sarnak (Music & Lyrics).

At the beginning of the new year, Alex began their newest adventure as the Associate Choreographer of Hadestown’s Australian production; now open at the Theatre Royal Sydney.

Alex returns to broadway in Spring 2025 in Hadestown — as Assistant Dance Captain, Swing, & Persephone u/s.

Photo by Laurel Hinton.