Director, Anthony E. Alexander

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Anthony E. Alexander is the founder and Executive Artistic Director of the Cultural Artistic Ensemble of Asheville. The group will perform Starring Me on Friday and Saturday, March 12 and 13. In July 2009 the play debuted in Bennettsville, South Carolina to a sold-out audience.

The mission of the organization is to celebrate the human spirit by sharing and collaborating multicultural experiences thru the arts of theater, music, dance, and visual arts while giving those who long to overcome their own oppression the opportunity to express themselves by freeing their artistry through education in the arts.

A native of Asheville, Anthony is the former assistant director of the W.C. Reid Center for Creative Arts. As the assistant director he was part of the staff when the Center won the distinction of being the 2006 Top Cultural Renaissance Program in the nation.

Anthony graduated from Asheville High School, attended North Carolina State University, and UNC Asheville. His love of writing is evident in “Daddy Where Are You?” Anthony made his debut at the W.C. Reid Center for Creative Arts with the plays Tough Love, and Death of the N-Word. Street Corner Blues, produced in 2009, was his fifth production at the creative arts center. Street Corner Blues was also presented at the Diana Wortham Theater at Pack Place, Asheville Community Theater, and UNC Asheville.  

Anthony’s life motto: “To dream of greatness is great, to make greatness a reality is even greater.”