Wayne Alexander(I)

Wayne Alexander grew up in the San Joaquin Valley in California. He received his training at the Los Angeles City College Theater Academy and went on to the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco to receive his baptism by fire into what it meant to have a life in the theater, appearing in over 25 productions there. The training he received performing in repertory has held him in good stead ever since. At ACT he also learned stage fencing, which lead to theater work as a fight choreographer. His theater work, doing mostly classical theater in Los Angeles, has put him on a first name basis with Shakespeare's Hamlet, Romeo, Benedick, Iago, Proteus, Berowne, Claudio and Edmund the Bastard, to name a few. He has appeared on stages in New York, beginning on Broadway with a production of Simon Gray's The Common Pursuit, A Streetcar Named Desire and at the Williamstown Theater Festival in an original production of Oedipus. Back in Los Angeles Wayne pursued a career in film and television, appearing in many episodic series and commercials. He is most noted for his work on the sci-fi series Babylon 5, and, on film, in Touchstone Picture's Spaced Invaders, because of it's cult status on college campuses, in which he played the meek, put upon gas station attendant, Vern, who, upon encountering the leader of a Martian invasion force, is transformed into the Zorro-like, robot-slave Verndroid.