Award winning Blind artist Alex Bulmer has over 35 professional years’ experience across stage, screen,, radio and education. She is fuelled by a curiosity of the improbable, dedicated to inter-dependent practice, and deeply informed by her experience of becoming blind.
Alex is co-founder of Fire and Rescue Arts, lead curator of CoMotionFestival with Harbourfront Centre, and former artistic director of Common Boots Theatre. As New Works and New Writing Manager with Graeae. She created in 2009 the companies groundbreaking Write To Play and Play lab program. Alex is the award-winning writer of multiple BBC radio dramas, the writer of Breathe which opened the London 2012 Olympics, the writer of the Dora -nominated plays SMUDGE and Perceptual Archaeology, writer of multiple BBC radio productions, and co-writer of the UK’s BAFTA-nominated television series Cast Offs. She has multiple acting credits in theatre and film, and is co-editor of Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts: Lifting The Curtain on Theatre and Disability, due for release in Canada in early 2026.
She’s regularly facilitated on Sync Intensives and joins this programme as a sounding board and contributor guest and associate.
Instagram: @thealexbulmer