BIOGRAPHY
Born in Los Angeles, California, Grammy-nominated artist Alexandra Silber grew up outside Detroit, Michigan.
She attended Interlochen Center for the Arts and continued her training at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, graduating with a degree in Acting. She graduated just days before her professional and West End debut as Laura Fairlie in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in White at the age of 21.
Alexandra's other British stage work includes Hodel in the Sheffield Crucible’s 2007 production of Fiddler on the Roof, and its subsequent West End transfer, and Julie Jordan in Carousel at The Savoy Theatre in London’s West End (for which she received critical acclaim, and received a TMA Award for Best Performance in a Musical). She also appeared at the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall as Lilli Vanessi/Kate in Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate with the John Wilson Orchestra to extensive critical acclaim. She recently returned to London at the end of 2021 to reprise her role in the Broadway transfer of Paula Vogel's Indecent directed by Rebecca Taichman at The Menier Chocolate Factory.
Alexandra Silber
She made her New York theater debut in 2011 portraying The Young Wife in the Transport Group’s revival of Michael John LaChiusa’s Hello Again (Drama League Award), and later that year played opposite Tony-Award winner Tyne Daly in Terrence McNally’s Master Class at the Kennedy Center and made her Broadway debut in the same production (garnering a nod from Backstage for one of the great theater performances of 2011). She played Sara Jane in the highly-acclaimed Arlington—a new one-woman, tour-de-force musical at the Vineyard Theater (Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Best Solo Performance); the full recording of which is available from Broadway Records.
Regionally she created the role of Countess Andreyni in Ken Ludwig's world premiere adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express at the McCarter Theater Center, as well as created the role of Elena Firenze in Ken Ludwig's world premiere of Lend Me a Soprano at The Alley Theatre.
She also created the role of Jenny Cavilerri in the North American Premiere of Love Story in Philadelphia, and has appeared as Guenevere in Camelot at Shakespeare Theatre Company's highest-grossing production in its history, as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at The Muny opposite Anthony Andrews, Titania opposite T.R Knight in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and Marion Paroo in The Music Man.
On-screen she appeared in Stephen King's 1408 starring John Cusack, and has appeared as a Guest Stars on Elementary, The Mysteries of Laura, and all three branches of the Law & Order series (SVU, Criminal Intent, and the original).
In 2016 Alexandra completed a run on Broadway as Tzeitel in the Tony-nominated revival of Fiddler of the Roof directed by Barlett Sher, starring 7-time Tony Nominee Danny Burstein as Tevye.
On international concert stages, Alexandra has offered multiple solo cabarets in cities across the globe, and was especially honored to be a part of Barbara Cook’s Spotlight Series at The Kennedy Center.
Alexandra made her Carnegie Hall debut singing the role of Nina in a concert performance of Song Of Norway with the Collegiate Chorale and American Symphony Orchestra. Other concert favorites include Pulitzer-Prize-winning David Del Tredici's World Premiere of "Dum Dee Tweedle" with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Lippa's oratorio "I Am Harvey Milk" at Disney Hall in Los Angeles with the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, and Amalia Balash in She Loves Me with The Orchestra of St. Luke's at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts opposite Santino Fontana.
Alexandra was nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award for her portrayal of Maria (opposite Cheyenne Jackson as Tony) with the San Francisco Symphony. in a concert presentation of West Side Story, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. This historic, first-ever concert presentation was accompanied by the first-ever full symphonic recording. She also performed on the 57th Grammy Award broadcast with Cheyenne Jackson.
As an author, Alexandra's debut novel "After Anatevka" (chronicling what happens to the characters of Hodel and Perchik made famous by the Sholem Aleichem stories), and her memoir "White Hot Grief Parade" (a poignant-comic memoir about losing her father to cancer when she was 18), are both published by Pegasus Books and available at all fine book retailers, as well as read by Alexandra on Audible.com.
As a playwright, she has written modern language adaptations of classic Greek tragedies—Sophocles' Antigone and Euripides' tragedy Trojan Women (which was given its first fully staged performance at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York in June 2015.) In 2024 she was commissioned by Dutch Kills Theatre to pen three radio plays (GAIA, Shadows of the Past, and Whisper Walk) which all premiered at the Adelaide Fringe Festival to critical acclaim.
On stage this fall she will reprise her critically acclaimed portrayal of Rachelka/Marianna in Igor Golyak’s production of Our Class at Classic Stage Company, followed by Portia in The Merchant of Venice at the same venue.
She currently lives in New York with her husband, and their fabulous cat, Tatiana.