ALEXANDRA COCKRELL

NY-Based Director & Actor

Alexandra Cockrell (she/they) is a New York City-based director and educator whose work and interest centers on the complexities of girlhood, moral ambiguity, the mythology of the American Dream, and contemporary interpretations of classical texts.

Directing credits include Evergreen (NYU Grad Acting / Freeplay Festival), Friday Night, 7:45 pm (B*TCH C*LLECTIVE), John Brown’s Body (Theatre Write Now / KOPCORP). As an associate/assistant director, she has collaborated with Sivan Battat on Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Jackson Gay on Cyrano de Bergerac (NYU Grad Acting). Alexandra has also worked as dramaturg and performance coach for the audiobooks of Your Beloved Remains by Quinn Connor (Macmillan Audio) and The Definitions by Matt Greene (Brilliance Audio).

Alexandra is on faculty at Interlochen Center for the Arts, where she serves as the Director of the High School Acting Company Production. Previous Interlochen directing credits include Shakespeare in Love, Sense and Sensibility, Romeo and Juliet, Alice and the Jabberwocky, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Alexandra trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she received the Sir John Gielgud Award. Additional training includes Interlochen Arts Academy and the Apprentice Program at Williamstown Theatre Festival.