Alex acts, sings, writes, casts and produces work across music, theater, tv/film, documentary, and other creative media.
Growing up traveling between her two parents and worlds in Nashville, TN and New York City, Alex developed an early appreciation for different cultures and people (and dialects!) She gravitated toward the arts, naturally — 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, organizing and producing projects for nonprofits and community organizations before returning to New York to train and 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, The Flea, and Mercury Store.
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 Brooklyn Public Library, Scranton Fringe Festival, The American Musical + Dramatic Academy, and NYU’s New Studio on Broadway.
She’s deepened her process through joining the casting team of Showtime’s documentary series, Couples Therapy (winner of multiple awards including the ACE Eddie Award for best edited non-scripted series) where she’s interviewed over 650 couples to find the ones featured on the show.
Alex’s drive to find meaning in life and art fuses with her perceptive eye for people, character and story, using creative forms to illuminate something special and true about being alive.