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Associate Artistic Director
A Mexican actress and director, Alejandra currently works at the Repertorio Español in New York in various productions including leading roles in The Feast of the Goat (ACE AWARD 2004- Best Actress), Doña Rosita the Spinster (ACE AWARD 2006- Best Character Actress), The Passion According to Antigona Perez (HOLA WARD 2000 - Best Actress), Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Also in New York she played leads in Dario Fo’s A Woman Alone, and in Edward Allan Baker’s The Bride of Olneyville Square.
She has performed internationally at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Cervantino International Festival, Manizales International Festival of Colombia, Sor Juana Ines Theater, and Julio Castillo Theater in México among others. In film you can see her in the leading role in Con la Mirada Perdida (Director - Delia Izcalbalceta), and she appears in Milk and Honey and Virgil Bliss (Director - Joe Maggio), and Dirt (Director - Nancy Savoca).
She was awarded the Grant to Young Creators by the National Endowment for the Arts and was two-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Art’s Grant for Professional Advancement Abroad. In Mexico she directed several plays, and made her New York directorial debut with Griselda Gambaro’s La Malasangre (HOLA 2003 AWARD for Best Director, ACE 2003 AWARD for Best Director). She most recently directed A Place Without Seasons in New York.
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