About

PERFORMANCE SPECIALIST

Alexandra Borrie is an actress/singer/dancer/master acting teacher and writer. Her 45 year career as a professional performer includes 20 years as a Broadway actress/singer and ten years as a film and television actor. Her performance range stretches from musical roles in Follies and The Most Happy Fella to dramatic star turns as Lizzie in The Rainmaker at the Guthrie Theatre and Joan of Arc in George Bernard Shawʼs Saint Joan. Her television career includes starring opposite James Naughton in Vanessa Redgraveʼs My Body, My Child and guest star roles with Pierce Brosnan on Remington Steele. She is a founding partner and director of Vocollage, a performance entity specializing in original works of music and text .

Alexandra, formerly a Master Acting teacher at NYUʼs Tisch School for the Arts and Lecturer in Drama at Muhlenberg College, is now a performance specialist and acting coach to the classical singer. She has directed chamber operas in Boston and created liturgical works for St. Jameʼs Church in NYC as Actor In Residence there. Most recently she has directed Ralph Vaughan Williamsʼ Riders To The Sea for Cantata Singers in Bostonʼs Jordan Hall. Her most current original short solo works include: A Room Of Oneʼs Own (playing Virginia Woolf), 9/11, A Tribute At Dusk (playing multiple roles) and Chasing Beauty (music by Franz Schubert, poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke and Diana Durham). Ms. Borrie is a Resident Scholar at the Womensʼ Studies Research Center at Brandeis, where she lectures on the Art of Performance and creates original biographical concerts and staged works.

Alexandra is writing a series of short form essays based on the life of her daughter, with whom she is making a documentary film, currently titled: A Different Daughter.