Lex K. Laverriere

Originally from southern Maine, Lex has been living and working in Boston since 2013 when she first came to Boston University — and the Tsai Center — as an undergraduate. After four years as a student Production Assistant and a brief career as a freelance technician and videographer, Lex joined the Tsai staff full-time in 2017. As Senior Production Specialist, Lex serves as the technical manager for a wide range of events at Tsai, including dance and cultural shows, theatrical productions, and film screenings. She enjoys collaborating with other full-time technicians and students alike to support diverse programming for the University and greater Boston communities. Alongside her duties at Tsai, Lex serves as the advisor for Boston University On Broadway, BU’s student-run musical theatre group. Lex has previously worked with nonprofit theatre and film organizations in both Boston and Los Angeles. With her interdisciplinary artistic and academic interests, Lex feels right at home at a multipurpose university venue.

Lex is an AVIXA Certified Technology Specialist as well as a Terrier F1RSTS Advocate dedicated to supporting first-generation students throughout their experience at BU. She holds a bachelor’s degree in film & television from Boston University and recently completed her graduate thesis in the film & television studies MFA program, also at BU. Her thesis, titled “Cinematic Transsubjectivity: Film Spectatorship as Gendered Subjectivation Beyond the Clinic,” argues through close readings of three films from the historical context of the emergent gender clinic in the early-1970s United States that the cinematic medium has a unique capacity to facilitate gender-expansive thinking in viewing subjects. Inspired by Sandy Stone, in this work “cinematic transsubjectivity” describes both a film’s capacity to articulate transsexuality beyond the limiting scope of dominant discourses and a viewing position from which spectators may begin to conceive of transsexual expression through cinematic terms.

Outside of work, Lex enjoys reading fiction, discovering new music, and making big breakfasts to share. She is also a proud cat parent.