Alex writes, acts, sings, casts and produces work across musical theatre, tv/film, documentary, and other creative media.
An only child who grew up traveling between her two parents and worlds in Nashville, TN and New York City, Alex developed an early appreciation for how different cultures and people coalesce, and how to move between all the players with grace and empathy. Unsurprisingly, she gravitated toward the arts — performing in plays and musicals, writing poems, transforming laundry rooms into dark rooms, and consistently curious about the intersection of art, humanity, and social issues.
After receiving a degree in Anthropology in upstate New York, she hightailed it to New Orleans where she spent several years swing dancing in jazz venues, biking under the oak trees, working in restaurants and community organizations before returning to New York to develop her theatrical work at places like — The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, La MaMa E.T.C., Ping Chong & Company, Atlantic Theater Company, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Mercury Store, and The Flea.
In 2021, she received her M.F.A. in Musical Theater Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a focus on writing lyrics and books (scripts) for (not-your-everyday) musicals.
Her dramatic writing and songwriting has been produced and presented by Feinstein’s/54 Below, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Broadway’s Future Songbook at Lincoln Center, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Clinton Hill Library, Scranton Fringe Festival, The American Musical + Dramatic Academy, and NYU’s New Studio on Broadway.
She’s deepened her process through becoming a casting producer on Showtime’s documentary series, Couples Therapy (winner of multiple awards including the ACE Eddie Award for best edited non-scripted series) where she interviewed nearly 600 couples to find the ones featured on the show.
Alex’s curiosity and drive to find purpose in life and art fuses with her perceptive eye for people, character and story, allowing her to build meaningful collaborations that use creative forms to illuminate something special and true about being alive.