Alexis West

Alexis West is a Birra Gubba, Wakka Wakka, South Sea Islander and Anglo Australian woman. She is a writer, director, collaborator and performer in film, theatre, poetry, dance and events. She has written and directed plays for No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability, Karrikarinya Theatre Collective and Kurruru Youth Arts.

Alexis has written and directed three 12-minute documentaries and a 5-minute documentary for NITV. She was a co-writer for the award-winning feature length documentary Kings Seal.

Alexis has produced, written and presented for arts and community program Around the Traps for NITV. Her poetry has been published in Mindshare, Ora Nui, Our Mob and Spirit Festival catalogues and translated into Polish for Poetiks.

She was the co-curator of the Australian Theatre Forum held in Adelaide in October 2017. Alexis performed and toured BUKAL, written by Andrea James with Aunty Henrietta Fourmile-Marie.

Currently, she is engaged as a part time writer-in-residence at State Theatre Company South Australia, and for ActNow Theatre’s Arts Pathway Program.