Alexandra (she/her) is a director of new work, comedy, & postcolonial interpretation of classics based in NYC and the DMV. She centers those who are not wholly represented, including women, the queer community, & people of the Global Majority.
Alex makes work that feels epic, mythic, & intimate. In her process and her productions, she strives to build community for artists and audiences.
She is the recipient of the 2023 SDCF Fellowship with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s production of Love’s Labor’s Lost and a member of the 2023 cohort of the Kennedy Center Directing Intensive. She is part of the 2021 Directors Lab North cohort, and a member of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists. She is currently a Directing Apprentice with PlayGround NY.
Select directing: Eurydice with Waterwell/PPAS, poolsides with the pebble collective, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder with Penn Singers Light Opera, The Broken Brain Breakup Game with Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, Bard Overboard at the SoHo Playhouse, The Penelopiad at Barnard, Almost, Maine and Boy Meets Girl at Columbia, and Beach Week at Round House Theatre (Teen Performance Company Sarah Play).
Alex has assistant directed for Amanda Denhert, Rachel Karp, and Pirronne Yousefzadeh, and has learned from directors including Nicole A. Watson, Raymond O. Caldwell, Kelsey Mesa, Alice Reagan, and Shannon Sindelar.
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In addition to directing, Alex is an intimacy professional, a playwright, & a producer.
Alex works and trains mainly as Associate Faculty with Theatrical Intimacy Education. She was McCarter Theatre Centre’s Artistic Assistant/BOLD Fellow from 2021-2023, and in that time, she was the first intimacy professional to choreograph on McCarter’s stages for their production of Ride the Cyclone, directed by Sarah Rasmussen.
Select intimacy: Mercury Store, Shakespeare and Company, McCarter Theatre Center, Arena Stage, and at undergraduate theatre departments across the East Coast, including Columbia where she was a 2023 Visiting Artist. Additional credits as intimacy coordinator for the screen.
She is the Creative Producer of Personal Pizza Party, a New York City-based theatre company dedicated to fostering community among young creatives. With 3P, she has directed, produced, and written, making art and community with other emerging artists - including directing world premiere readings of Love Interest and Slow Burn, and writing Helen in her Homeland.
In addition to English, Alex is a native French speaker, and grew up both in the United States and the United Kingdom. For her thirteenth birthday, she dragged her friends to see a show at the Globe Theatre in London (The Taming of the Shrew, if you were curious). With her mixed cultural heritage, she identifies as a “Third Culture Kid.”
She graduated cum laude from Barnard College with a major in theatre (concentrating in directing) and a minor in English (focusing on classics).
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Intimacy Choreographer | Charles Mee Greek Tragedy Project, produced by Mercury Store
Director/Facilitator/Producer | The Oven 2024, produced by Personal Pizza Party/The Elif Collective
Director | Blood Orange by Abigail Duclos, produced by The Elif Collective
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Director & developer | Love Interest by Lee Melillo [comedic drama, full-length]
Lydia is the leather-clad, femme fatale star of the Twister Comics Cinematic Universe (TCEU)’s latest franchise of superhero films, and just wants one gig where she doesn’t have to kiss a coworker. Nadia is an up-and-coming pop icon who wants to make the leap into acting, and will do whatever it takes to get there – even if it means doing it the “old school” way. Annie is an aspiring entertainment reporter with a lot of dumb luck, and really should’ve paid more attention in Ethics of Journalism 101. All three are learning what kinds of power actually exist for them in “socially-conscious” entertainment industry that’s convinced itself it’s changed its tune.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
public staged reading at The Tank, produced by Personal Pizza Party (2023)
Playwright | Helen in her Homeland [choreopoetic drama, one act]
A meditation on the power and pain of beauty. Helen and Paris met, fled, started, and ended a war. A modern poetic and mythological retelling of what the face that launched a thousand ships might have seen, and said, in Troy.
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
public staged reading at Theaterlab, produced by Personal Pizza Party (2023)
Director | Honeysuckle by Abigail Duclos [horror drama, full-length]
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
private reading (2023)
public staged reading at Makers Ensemble (2024)
this is what
she’s currently listening to.
here are some things that she loves
Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, and other women who write science-fiction
beautiful homelands