Alexander Sparrow
Alexander is an award-winning comedian, MC, and director. He has performed in LA, New York, and Boston; Belgium; France; Scotland; England; and all over New Zealand. Alexander has featured on TVNZ’s Breakfast, TV3’s The Project, and PRIME TV’s Back Benches; and in The Wall Street Journal (US).
He directed Pat Goldsack’s Swingers Club & Brothel (2022 tour with Arts on Tour NZ), Macbeth (2021-22 NZ tour), King John (2020 with Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ), The Merry Wives of Windsor (2019 NZ tour), and A Collection of Noises (2013, 2015, 2020 seasons). He was character director for The Nutcracker at Nelson’s Theatre Royal (2021).
Alexander has presented his thoughts on the philosophy of comedy at conferences and universities in New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Belgium, Croatia, and the UK. He received the International Society of Humor Studies’ DANYS Award at their 2023 conference for his paper on cringe comedy. In 2024 he earned an MA Philosophy with Distinction for his thesis Humour and the Appearance of Authenticity. The thesis can be downloaded HERE.
IG, X, Threads: @asparrowcomic
IG: @sparrowandboyle