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Alex/Avery Beige©
Playwright / Creative Technologist / Biohacker
Avery / Alex Beige is a creative technologist, biohacker, and playwright based in NYC. A proud SFPC alum, they design speculative theater and digital experiences focused on the gap between being watched and being seen—and the self-knowledge or self-annihilation that ensues. Their one-person show, Website Evangelist: Eulogy for a Laptop, was performed in Ars Nova’s ANT Fest. Their full-length play Blushing Milk [OTC], In Vivo—a Jesse L. Kearney Playwriting Initiative finalist—was most recently staged as an interactive performance installation for their 2026 Eyebeam residency. Their theatre and performance work has also been featured in ?!:New Works at The Brick, the NYC International Human Rights Art Festival, SERIALS with The Fled, and the 24-Hour Plays. Alex / Avery is also a research fellow at The Nonbinary Research Facility, where new approaches to bodily autonomy are engineered at will, and the distinction between person and place dissolves entirely.
Welcome! I'm a creative technologist, biohacker, and playwright based in NYC. And this? Is my artist portfolio. Get in touch at alex@beige.zone. Or, don't. And instead, stay here and enjoy the fruits of my creative labor. Delicious.
Selected Works
A cybernetic play reading where the audience's agency as spectator sits at the forefront.
For my July 2026 residency showcase with Eyebeam--an interactive play reading of Blushing Milk [OTC], In Vivo that gives the audience increased agency via real-time voting devices. The audience's surveillance becomes the subject, placing the black performers and audience members on equal footing. Watch the trailer here
This version was complete with a custom-built web panel for managing lights, sound, and voting cues in real time. Starring Maya Man, BT Hayes, Greg Lakhan, and Sandile Mhlaba. Sound design by Ari Cleveland. The showcase was held at NYU Tandon @ The Yard. The reading was performed in two 15-minute intervals.
The custom ESP32 touchscreen voting devices serve as sites of agency and complicity, a small symbol of contradiction within so-called democratic processes.
Blushing Milk [OTC], In Vivo is also a full-length play, didn't you hear? The tagline: A biotech founder and a public health journalist walk into a Starbucks to discuss the merits of a drug supposedly ending racism. From the interview emerges a trial—of the pill and of each other, conducted by the architect of illusions neither could perceive.
Read my Eyebeam profile here
Photo credits: Cal Hsiao, Bryan Lai, & Luke Mu
Website poem & one-person show wherein I accidentally grew one (1) boob.
The first photo was from a 5min version at Todd Anderson's monthly Wordhack event, during the open projector.
Ongoing one-person show and research project where new approaches to bodily autonomy are engineered at will, and the distinction between person and place dissolves entirely.
DIY HRT is not for the faint-hearted, but enbies make do. Did you know the constituent parts of PVC are an endocrine disruptor?
Two researchers assemble approximately seven meters of PVC piping.
Paige Esterly produced yet another excellent ten-minute play festival at Caveat.
This play was starring Adeline Saunders and Venice Ohleyer. I directed it! It used a bunch of PVC pipe, which I suppose is kind of my signature plastic now.
The piece . . . played with language, you could say. #yungDavidIves
Three officers and their goddess incarnate deliberate over the merits and consequences of the Flip Switch.
The Flip Protocol. with 24 Hour Plays in July 2025! I love making theatre and not sleeping.
directed by Tessa Bagby starring @allison.ye @niraj00971 @saidie.stone @giannamilici
photo credit Danté Charles Crichlow
Real-time audience voting restructured the reading as it unfolded.
An interactive installation reading at Maya Man's 442 Heart Gallery, during Lavender Town, a one-night only haunted tech exhibit. Audience members could vote to augment & reconfigure the mechanics of the piece in real time. A cybernetic play reading where the audience's agency as spectator sits at the forefront.
Real-time audience voting restructured the reading as it unfolded—jumping scenes, reading backward, swapping performers, and allowing audience members to trade places with the cast. Crucially, the audience members never knew precisely what they were voting for.
This version starred Greg Lakhan, Temidayo Amay, BT Hayes, and Amalia Mayorga. We went for two 90 minute chunks, which was too long lmao.
A pseudo-Catholic mass reconciling loss, internet intimacy, and generational trauma via laptop puppetry.
Directed by Emma Gometz, supporting roles played by BT Hayes & Maya Man (as website god, naturally)
Performed in ANT Fest at Ars Nova, as well as in Soho Playhouse's Lighthouse Festival, where it did NOT go to round 2. Earlier versions appeared as stand-up with Pure Chaos Comedy, and at the Spade Collective's Aces Wild Festival.
Join Archbishop Beige of the Website Evangelism movement in celebrating the joyous intimacy of websites, alongside the more somber offering of their only begotten laptop to the realm beyond. A pseudo-Catholic mass reconciling loss, internet intimacy, and generational trauma via laptop puppetry. HTTP!
It is a laptop puppet show in celebration of Website God (HTTP) and a pseudo-catholic meditation on grief (jesus was the original planned obsolescence). It's also stand-up comedy sometimes. Honestly still really hard to explain what it is lol
Ticket proceeds were donated to Friends of the Congo. The ghost in the machine is black.
ironic how I procrastinated the play abt procrastination
The script didn't exist til like a week and a half before the show when the last-minute panic kicked in, so we literally pulled this off with one rehearsal (typicaallll)
Performed by Karen Xia, Isabella Oliva, Sarah Doh, & Alex Beige
The ableist tropes were inspired by Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism, and the play was mostly us leaning really hard into those wrt adhd, which was very fun. more irony-poisoned theatre on the horizon !
yada yada post-irony yada yada metamodernity etc etc I read a book on disability studies wow so ironic how I procrastinated the play abt procrastination insert witty ending here
Photo Credits Lee Rayment
The edgiest play about racism ever written.
During The Makers' Ensemble's Short Play Fest. Directed by Sam Morreale.
The edgiest play about racism ever written. Black suffering is a spectator sport in this country, and during this play I became Lebron James
Of spectating, not of suffering. After all, why shouldn't I too profit from the artistic exploitation of my own trauma? THAT is what true liberation looks like. REAL art. Surrendering to mainstream liberal fantasy . . . wow !
It's an inversion of the previous play, embracing cheeky internet-born nihilism to form a faux-anarchist origin story of "black" "liberation". I still play myself, but this time ironically, I guess. You had to be there.
Now a full-length piece called Blushing Milk [OTC], In Vivo.
A faerie neurosurgeon treats an insomniac with dream therapy
This was performed at Fucked-Up Play Fest, created by Paige Esterly!
Starring BT Hayes and I, and directed by Jordan Allyn.
This treatment is NOT approved by the FDA, naturally, as any treatment existing outside the American pharmaceuticals industry will huwrt wittle big pharma's pwofwits ;'(
Photo Credit: Madison Scheps
A lone ice cream scooper reports for duty.
A lone ice cream scooper reports for duty. Directed by Emma Gometz. Performed by Cassie Elkin, Isabella Oliva, Nick Turturro, & Mar Urzua.
Photo Credits: Marcus Maddox
Webzine about one of my fav experimental novels ever
Search History by Eugene Lim, an incredibly fun experimental novel that poses the question: "ur dead friend was reincarnated as a cyberdog. wyd?"
Herein lies the fanzine/webzine/perzine I made in SFPC's Reading/Writing/Compiling Zines class, taught by Neta Bomani! It captures some of my favorite parts of the book, and also made me realize how instrumental anshul was in getting me to write plays again, so it's also abt that.
ADHD simulation short film
ADHD simulation short film I made for Prospect Heights Art Club's Failed Film Festival. It's called Attention Deficit Hyperant Disorder, and I did an IRL simulation at the brick in april w ?!: New Works!
A sincere play about racism where I played myself
Starring Khali Sykes and Greg Lakhan. I played myself, in both senses. Xander Browne was the director.
Turns out if you write & perform a play about the worst night of your life, you experience sth called catharsis, thus de-spooking the event & desensualizing it into mythos?? highly recommend
The premise was a scientist who made a pill that turned black people white, basically. But he was sad because his parents called the cops on him. Ah, I was so sincere back then. Makes me sick to my stomach. I redeemed myself in later versions.
Performed at The Tank! Photo credit: Robin Michals