Alec Barbour is a Rochester, NY based actor, fight choreographer, and playwright. He received his MFA in Acting at the Hilberry Repertory Theatre at Wayne State University in Detroit, where his roles included Iago in Othello, Carson in Gross Indecency, and Charles Lomax in Major Barbara. Regional credits include Sir Castor in Camelot and Horner in The Country Wife. He has been studying stage combat for ten years, and is an Advanced Actor/ Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors.  he has directed fight for Romeo & Juliet  and The Liar at LeMoyne College, and Kiss Me Kate at SU Drama. Other show he has fight-directed include Arabian Nights, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, and SubUrbia for Wayne State University, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Macbeth, The Mousetrap,  and Moon Over Buffalo at the Hilberry Repertory Theatre,Romeo & Juliet and Dracula for WallByrd Theatre Co., and Disgraced at Syracuse Stage.  Dracula, his first play, and the most faithful adaptation of Stoker’s novel of which he is aware, enjoyed a successful reading in New York City in 2010, and at the Rochester Fringe Festival in 2016. His second, The Nightmare, is a thriller centered around sleep-paralysis, the supernatural, and psychological abuse. He is also the author of the vampire short story The Resurrection and the Life; he promises to write something more cheerful next time. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and SAG/AFTRA.