Alexandra Siladi

(Director) Alexandra recently directed She’s Gone Serious, a night of Tennessee Williams’ one-acts at the Collapsable Hole in Williamsburg. She graduated from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television, where she held experimental improvisation nights, and directed works including Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth, Mac Wellman’s Swoop, Kenneth Rexroth’s Beyond the Mountains (Fowler Museum), Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Perry Souchuk’s The Pleasure of Detachment, and Christopher Durang’s For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls. In New York City, she directed original plays The Method by Paul Hancock, and Pieta by Jules Tasca (Curan Repertory Theater, NY, NY) – both winners of Outstanding Play, Outstanding Direction, and Outstanding Performance at the Notes from Underground One Act Festival. Alexandra has worked on productions at Theater for a New Audience, The Wooster Group, Incubator Arts Project (formerly Ontological- Hysteric Theater), and The Westport Country Playhouse. She currently works in the President’s Office at BAM. Assistant Director: Steel Magnolias (La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts), America’s Next Top Bottom (The Celebration Theater, FringeNYC), Mouthful of Birds (UCLA). While in high school, Alexandra became the only student director to win New England Drama Festival’s Outstanding Production award, for Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses.