Bunker Talk #154: Alex Kelly

Alex Kelly is a theatre & games maker, writer, performer and mentor. He creates performance and participatory projects that connect the territories of theatre, games, conversation, installation and digital media. Since 2023 he has been making projects under the name Voyager 3. From 1995–2023 he was Co-Artistic Director of Sheffield-based, internationally acclaimed theatre company Third Angel, which toured extensively throughout the UK and internationally. He is an associate of Lisbon-based international theatre collective Má Criação.

Alex is a serial collaborator and an experienced educator, and regularly mentors other artists and theatre companies. He has a PhD in autobiographical and documentary theatre, and is Reader in Theatre & Performance at Leeds Beckett University. He has taught at numerous Universities and other institutions across the UK and internationally. He regularly presents at conferences in the UK and abroad, and publishes writing and drawing about devising, interdisciplinary performance and autobiographical theatre. Third Angel’s performance texts are published by Bloomsbury, and on the company’s web archive.