Alex Ates 

From 2008-2017, Alex was an actor at the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane University, the city's classical theater. From 2013-2017, he was an ensemble member of The NOLA Project. He's a member of Actors' Equity Association. 

"Alex Ates continues to show that he is growing into one of the finest Shakespeareans of his generation, with an innate sense of the language and ability to draw laughs from his mere delivery of the plainest of lines."
– The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

"Alex Ates has oft proven to be one of the finest Shakespeareans on the local stage."
– The Times-Picayune 

"In recent years, Ates has consistently proven to be one of the festival’s rising young stars."
– The Times-Picayune

"The energy and playfulness that Brendan Bowen and Alex Ates bring to the title roles is palpable and contagious...Bowen captures the bewildered confusion of Rosencrantz, while Ates frenetically focuses on their imperiled situation from an academic, philosophical viewpoint." — The Times-Picayune

"One notable and particularly effective deviance from the script has Brutus’ servant, Lucius, assist him in his suicide, rather than the soldier Strato. In doing so, it creates one of the play’s most touching and intimate moments between Neisler’s Brutus and Lucius, played beautifully by Alex Ates, a young actor who has repeatedly impressed in the festival’s previous productions."
– The Times-Picayune