ALEXA FRASER
Alexa Fraser is multi disciplinary artist from St.Catharines, Ontario. With a B.Des in Fashion Design from Toronto Metropolitan University (2006), Alexa has worked as a Technical Designer for Abercrombie and Fitch Co. in Columbus, Ohio (2006-2008), in the Tailoring Department at the Shaw Festival (2014 and 2015 seasons) and as the Head of Wardrobe for Carousel Players since 2015. Alexa has displayed textile and installation art in many solo and group exhibits, designs and sews costumes for theatre, makes and performs puppets and teaches textile and puppet making workshops.
Recent costume design credits include Chicago-Teen Edition with Ridley College (2024), Newsies-the Musical, Yellow Door Theatre Project (2023), SF Bird and A Vampire Story, Brock University DART Mainstage productions (2023), Jenny's House of Joy and Danny and Delilah (2023) and The Foursome (2022) with The Foster Festival, Mary Poppins Jr, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Nobody's Children and Shrek Jr with Yellow Door Theatre Project (2022/2023), and Pop Pop (2021/2022/2023), Lig and Bittle (2020/2024), The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito (2017/2019/2023) with Carousel Players.
Recent puppetry credits include puppet design, creation and performance for Chorus Niagara's Children's Choir Spring Concert (2024), puppet design and creation for Cosmic Fishing Theatre Company's Discover and SHADED (2022/2023), Yellow Door Theatre Project's Nobody's Children (2022), Carousel Player's Pop Pop (2021/2022/2023) and design and performance for Carousel Player’s Culture Days event, Drama Garden, 2022 (This event received Spotlight Recognition from Ontario Culture Days, receiving “Best In Person Program-Runner Up” and was also performed at the First Ontario Performing Arts Centre on Family Day, 2024) and for Concrete Cabaret's Exquisite Collaboration (2021) and #7 A VERY SPECIAL Holiday SPECIAL (2020).
Alexa was thrilled to start teaching wardrobe, costuming, props and puppets at Brock University's Department of Dramatic Arts in 2023 and is looking forward to teaching Carousel Player's Puppetry and Mask Summer Camp, designing and building costumes and puppets for Yellow Door Theatre Project's Summer and Fall 2024 productions, designing costumes for the Foster Festival's Fall production as well as beginning to perform with Teaching Awareness Through Puppetry Co.
Please contact Alexa at fraser.alexa@gmail.com for any collaboration, costume, puppet, textile art or workshop inquiries.