Bill Alexander

Stage director, born in Hunstanton, Norfolk, E England, UK. He worked at the Bristol Old Vic (1971–3), and the Royal Court Theatre, London (1972–8), before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977, where he became associate director (1984–91), and honorary associate director (1991– ). From 1993 to 2001 he was artistic director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Bill Alexander (William Vollie Alexander Jr.) was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Arkansas from 1969 to 1993.

He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on Jan. 16, 1934, and graduated from Osceola High School in Arkansas in 1951.

He was elected as a Democrat to Congress in 1968 and was repeatedly re-elected until 1992, when he was defeated for his party's nomination by his former staff assistant and current Arkansas U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln.

Has lived in Virginia since 1993 however he continues to vote via absentee ballot in Arkansas each election.