Alexander Lewis (actor)

Alexander Lewis
Origin	London, UK
Occupation(s)	actor

Alexander Lewis is an English-Australian musical theatre actor who most recently portrayed Vašek in the joint production of The Bartered Bride by New York's Metropolitan Opera and The Juilliard School.

Lewis spent the early years of his life in Hampstead, London initially observing his opera-singer parents before eventually joining the St Alban’s Cathedral Choir at the age of seven. Lewis comes from a musical family. His father Michael Lewis OAM is an opera singer and concert performer and his mother Patricia Price is also a singer as well as being Head of Vocal Studies and Opera at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Older brother Ben Lewis is known for his portrayal of The Phantom in Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies.

Lewis's parents used their industry contacts to fund-raise for Warrawee Primary School in Sydney where both Alexander and Ben attended. Richard Bonynge was generally the conductor and the performers were whoever was available at the time from the Australian Opera. The concerts continue to this day and a prize named after Lewis’s parents is awarded to one of the school's music students.

After moving back to Australia, Lewis attended Newington College in Sydney where he studied music and drama whilst playing sport. After high school, Lewis successfully applied to study at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, or WAAPA with brother Ben. Both graduated from the Music Theatre course in 2004. and Alexander was awarded the Lesley Anderson Fellowship as most outstanding student of that year.

In 2001, Lewis was a finalist in the Australian Singing Competition's Mathy Awards and appeared in The Sydney Festival with The Australian Theatre for Young People. In 2002, he featured in the Prime Minister's Australia Day celebrations.

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