Alex (he/him) is a London-based musical comic and comedy director.

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He currently works mainly on live shows across comedy genres (stand-up, clown, character & musical comedy) but has recently ventured into film too.
 

He was the Clap Back To Reality Winner 2023/24, came 3rd in the Chichester New Act Competition, and has been a Kingston New Act Finalist & So You Think You're Funny, West End New Act & Musical Comedy Awards Semi-Finalist as a solo musical comic.

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He took his 45-minute show Alex Prescot: I've Got A Song About That to Edinburgh Fringe 2024 which sold out the run & received glowing reviews, with Pepper & Salt calling him 'the comedy equivalent of sunshine' (!). He hopes to debut in 2025.

He was a Sketch Off Semi-Finalist in 2023 & 2024 and Dabbers Bingo Comedy Caller Semi-Finalist in double act The Extra Virgins (AKA The Airdressers).

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He co-founded and performs with The Bean Spillers, the improvised comedy musical all about gossip.

 

He recently performed as 'The Judge' in A Jaffa Cake Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe 2024.

He recently directed Eleanor Greene's dark one woman comedy Girls Really Listen To Me', and has previously worked as a comedy director with performers including Claire Parry, Alex Franklin & Miztli Rose

The most recent short film he directed, Sunflower Oil, was selected for the Woodstock Film Festival in New York, and can be viewed here.

 

He co-wrote, co-directed and performed in new multi-pathway musical Runesical, a parody of the beloved video game 'Runescape', had a successful run in Edinburgh in August 2022, followed by a run at the Town and Gown in Cambridge in April 2023, in partnership with RuneScape creators Jagex.

He can currently be seen in the live recordings of Timpson: The Musical and RuneSical, & in his comedy sketches on Instagram and TikTok which have over 2.5 million views.

Please do get in touch if you want a director, performer, a pair of outside eyes or would like to collaborate - I'm always up for a coffee (woah switch to first person!). Also, there are some nice things people have said about working with me here.