Biography
Alexandra is a Martinican-American actor, playwright, stage director, singer and media professional. She is the founder and artistic director of the Martinique-based DALA CompaNY theatre company.  A theatre and movement educator, she holds an M.F.A. in Drama from the University of Virginia (2016), a Master’s in Journalism from Université Lyon III (2007), and is a certified Reynolds Technique instructor. 

She moved to New York City in 2006 and worked for several years as a financial TV and Radio journalist at the New York Stock Exchange while taking acting classes at T. Schreiber Studio. In 2014, she received a full scholarship to the University of Virginia where she got her M.F.A. in Drama and taught acting for two years. In 2016, she trained in Japan with the Butoh company Dairakudakan under Akaji Maro, and performed with them in their Golden Camel Show in Nagano in July 2016. In 2019 she created DALA CompaNY, a theatre company which builds bridges between Martinique, the Caribbeans and the U.S. 

Alexandra is an award-winning artist whose work has been internationally acclaimed. Her play Les Îles de Raphaël, written in French, in Creole and in English, won first place of the Jamais Lu Caraïbe award in 2021. It also won third place of the ETC Caraïbe award the same year. It has been heard in Avignon, Montreal, Prague (translated in Czeck by Katka Neveu), Charlottesville, VA, and has been produced at the National Theatre in Martinique in 2023. 

She has been an artist-in-residence at La Chartreuse-CNES Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, in September 2022 and at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, in October 2022 - February 2023 and June 2023 – October 2023. She has been part of the CITF Montreal “pépinière” of francophone playwrights in May-June 2023.

While serving as a Lecturer at the Drama Department at the University of Virginia during the Spring semester 2026, Alexandra is working on Havivra, her musical theatre tale inspired by the life of Havivra Da Ifrile, a survivor of the explosion of the Pelée volcano in Martinique in 1902. This play dives into the intertwinement of the Martinican traditional music Biguine in Saint-Pierre and the emergence of Jazz in the U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century and sheds a light on the birth of the literary movement of Negritude.