“Beneath the "redneck" culture in the rural Deep South -- we're along the border between Alabama and Georgia here -- there's an ugliness that's almost incomprehensible to much of the rest of the world. Usually, when we hear about it, it's wrapped in Confederate flags and Ku Klux Klan robes. Alex Dawson's DEEP IN THE JEEPS OF GEORGIA sidesteps these familiar markers and takes us instead to the breeding grounds of hatred and disrespect for human life where a group of popular local teens glorify this mindset, and even wrap it in religious terms. Their emblems include guns, jeeps, booze and proudly misogynistic sex. It's a harrowing, offensive portrait of what, in program notes, Dawson calls "relentless inhumanity". Jane Hardy ably guides a talented cast that brings Dawson's trenchant but awful story to the stage convincingly. It's one of those plays that will show you things you don't want to see. But you should.” [Les Gutman/CurtainUp.com]

Alex Dawson is a playwright/designer
and co-founder of the award-winning Bon Bock Productions
(in residence with Horse Trade. )

In the last four years he has written and designed fifteen plays.

They include: BARMAN, WELCOME TO NEW JERSEY, ROOM TO SWING AN AXE and WC.

Dubbed an “Angry Young Man” by The Village Voice
and personally recommended by writer/filmmaker Whit Stillman (Last Days of Disco)

Dawson’s work has been called “Intense. Original,” by Esquire Magazine,
“Rich and haunting,”by NYTheatre.com,
“Gritty and lyrical,” by Show Business Weekly,
“Trenchant and harrowing,” by CurtainUp.com,
“Profane, funny, compelling and tragic,” by The Star-Ledger,
“Beautifully bleak,” by OOBR,
“Perceptive and sharply written,” by OffOffOff.com,
“Muscular and tough-minded,” by Tom Lynch, Theatre World
and “Disturbing, hysterical, genius,” by Jerry Stahl (Permanent Midnight, Plain Clothes Naked).

He has been featured in The Star Ledger, The Bergen Record, The Home News Tribune, The Rutgers Alumni Magazine, The Princeton Packet and on Jersey’s Talking.

He is an Overall Excellence Award Winner (FringeNYC 2000) and a recipient of Rutgers University’s Evelyn Hamilton Scholarship for Excellence in Creative Writing. His work has been translated into French and German. He is a graduate of Rutgers College.