Alex Amery

What is your favorite role you’ve ever done?

My favorite role is The Player in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard. … I was in high school when I did it, and I hope to get to do it again as an adult someday. It’s just amazingly grandiose and has some really sort of dark, dense, interesting language and commentary on acting and theater in general in a way I find really interesting.

 How long have you been acting?

Since I was in middle school was when I was first knowingly aware of it.

What do you enjoy most about acting?

I’m just a sucker for good storytelling. I enjoy well-written plays. Getting to say well-written words is really my favorite thing.

Why did you choose to come to the graduate program at OU?

I’m really drawn to the emphasis on new works at OU. The prominence of the playwriting department and things like (Midnight) Madness and the (Seabury Quinn Jr. Playwrights’ Festival). I got a BFA in acting in my undergrad, and so I feel like a lot of the skill sets I later realized I wished I developed more was how to … learn to self-produce and OU has good groundwork for that.

What are you hoping to get out of the program after three years?

I would like to try and develop more of an artist viewpoint as an actor. That is the kind of work I’m really interested in, and how can I better get involved in that, and where is it being done, and who is writing it?

What’s a fun fact about you?

I lived in Malaysia for three months. A friend of mine … got a Fulbright grant to do some theater there to blend Malaysian theatrical traditions and Western theatrical traditions.

See him as Antonio in Much Ado About Nothing Nov. 11-14, 18-21