BIOGRAPHY
Alexandra is a Lortel Award-winning and Grammy-nominated theatre artist, singer, novelist, and playwright.
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.
As an ACTOR:
Broadway/New York credits include Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof, Master Class (with Tyne Daly), the world-premiere of Arlington (Outer Critics Circle nomination), and Hello Again (Drama League nomination), Our Class (Lortel Award), Einstein's Dreams, The Lucky Star, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, and the title role in Nell Gwynn.
London and West End credits include the Original London Cast of Paula Vogel's Indecent, Lilli Vanessi/Kate in Kiss Me, Kate for the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall, Julie Jordan in Carousel (Great Britain’s TMA Award for Best Performance in a Musical), Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Laura Fairlie in The Woman in White.
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Regional Theatre credits include the world-premiere casts of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Soprano (The Alley Theatre), Murder on the Orient Express (McCarter Theatre Center), and Christina Pumariega’s ¡VOS! (Two River Theater).
Also Desireé in A Little Night Music, Marian in The Music Man, Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Guenevere in Camelot (Shakespeare Theatre of DC), Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare), Julie Jordan in Carousel (Ovation-nomination), Master Class (The Kennedy Center), and the North American Premiere of Love Story.
As a SINGING ARTIST:
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.
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:
Alexandra’s brand new adaptation of Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon premiered in May 2026 at the Pasadena Playhouse to huge critical acclaim.
Modern-language adaptations of classic Greek tragedies—Sophocles' Antigone and Euripides' tragedy Trojan Women titled i have a cart.
The radio plays: GAIA, Shadows of the Past, and Whisper Walk, all of which premiered at the Adelaide Fringe Festival and went on to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in British editions with Dutch Kills Theatre.
She currently lives in New York.
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