Alec Duffy | Founder & Board Treasurer
Alec (he/him) is a playwright and director. In 2005, he founded the theater company Hoi Polloi, with whom he has created many original works, including
Dysphoria, The Less We Talk, and All Hands. In 2010, he shared an OBIE Award for Three Pianos, a paean to Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, co-written and performed with Dave Malloy and Rick Burkhardt in a production directed by Rachel Chavkin that toured to New York Theatre Workshop and American Repertory Theater after its premiere at Incubator Arts Project. His most recent production with Hoi Polloi was a commission of acclaimed Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada, Quiet, Comfort, which premiered at JACK in 2016. His production of the opera Four Nights of Dream premiered at Japan Society in 2017 and subsequently toured to the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. Before founding JACK, he held positions in several arts organizations, including Japan Society (as assistant to Artistic Director Yoko Shioya) and Mannes Opera. Duffy is a former NEA/TCG directing fellow and a Drama League Directing Fellow. Duffy has been a member of the Youth, Education & Cultural Affairs committee of his local Community Board since 2015.
(Photo credit: Sammy Tunis)