The Grapevine

Alex is a California native who grew up in both Northern and Southern California as the daughter of scientist and educator parents, which drove her into musical theater at an early age. She acted, sang, danced and played classical piano through the turbulent tween years, and started directing plays at age sixteen, a year she also lived in Istanbul as an AFS exchange student and began college.

At U.C. Berkeley, she majored in theater and minored in everything that Berkeley has a reputation for. While not doing—everything else—she wrote, directed, and acted in productions from Shakespeare to street theater; trained in modern and jazz dance; directed and choreographed four full-scale musicals; spent a summer singing backup vocals in a bar at Glacier National Park, audited at least three times as many classes in various subjects as she was actually taking, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, which is a miracle considering—well, never mind that. After college she moved down to LA where she simultaneously worked in a metaphysical bookstore, taught incarcerated juveniles in the LA County prison system, and read screenplays for various studios while she was writing her own first screenplay, which sold in a bidding war. So no, she’s never had a real job in her life.