Alexis Haut

Alexis Haut is an audio producer, writer and educator based in Brooklyn. She spent seven years teaching, leading teachers and coaching basketball in middle schools in Brooklyn and Newark before independently producing her first podcast series in 2018. Her audio work includes the 2019 B Free Award Winning podcast Appropriate: Stories from the Grey Area of Consuming Culture, Ball is Business an iHeartRadio Next Great Podcast finalist investigating the long con of high school basketball recruitment, the Signal Award Winning podcast Where’s My Village? about America’s broken childcare system, and Design Observer’s DB|BD. She is a Master’s Candidate in Film and Media Cultures at the CUNY Graduate Center. You can find links to all her work at www.hauttakes.com.

‘Thoughts & Prayers’ & bulletproof desks: Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari on filming the active shooter preparedness industry

Teo Yoo and Greta Lee sitting in front of a carousel in Past Lives (2023)

Arts + Culture

Alexis Haut|Interviews

‘The creativity just blooms’: “Sing Sing” production designer Ruta Kiskyte on making art with formerly incarcerated cast in a decommissioned prison

a still from "the substance" in which a figure in a robe with a snake on it stands over a naked woman with rough stitches up her spine, on the floor of a stark white-tiled bathroom

The Observatory Newsletter

Alexis Haut|Analysis

Alexis Haut

‘Thoughts & Prayers’ & bulletproof desks: Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari on filming the active shooter preparedness industry

How production designer Grace Yun turned domestic spaces into horror in ‘Hereditary’ and heartache in ‘Past Lives’

“Pay us what you owe us”

Say it with your chest: WNBA players fight for pay and justice on their t-shirts

Beauty queenpin: ‘Deli Boys’ makeup head Nesrin Ismail on cosmetics as masks and mirrors

It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green: ‘Wicked’ spells for struggle and solidarity

About face: ‘A Different Man’ makeup artist Mike Marino on transforming pretty boys and surfacing dualities

Innies see red, Innies wear blue: Severance’s use of color to seed self-discovery

‘The creativity just blooms’: “Sing Sing” production designer Ruta Kiskyte on making art with formerly incarcerated cast in a decommissioned prison

Black balled and white walled: Interiority in Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”