GUEST BIO

Alexandria Wailes [she/her] is a multi-hyphenated artist. Select highlights include:
Broadway: for colored girls… (Booth), Deaf West’s Spring Awakening (Lena Horne Theater), Big River (Roundabout)
Off Broadway:  I Was Most Alive with You (Playwrights Horizons), A Kind Of Alaska (New York Live Arts)
Regional: Oedipus (The Getty Villa), Our Town (Pasadena Playhouse), Gruesome Playground Injuries (Mixed Blood)
TV: ‘Law & Order: Criminal Intent’, ‘High Maintenance’, ‘Little America’, ‘Nurse Jackie’, CW’s ‘The Flash’. 
Associate choreographer on Deaf West’s Spring Awakening.
 Director of Artistic Sign Language: Broadway revival Children of a Lesser God and King Lear; Television: This Close seasons 1 & 2; Quantico season 3, 
Film: A Quiet Place 1 & 2, Wonderstruck, and CODA (2022 multiple Academy Award winner). 
Her latest project as a DASL was the Goodspeed and Signature Theatre’s co-production of Private Jones (10 Helen Hayes noms.). 
In 2024, she directed Once on This Island for Deaf Broadway at Lincoln Center’s Summer Stages, co-directed Spring Awakening at Skylight Music Theatre, and directed A Not So Quiet Nocturne for VOCA (Visionaries of the Creative Arts). Directed Deaf Spotlight’s Short Play Festival in Spring of 2023. 
Awards: 2022 Chita Rivera winner, recipient of 2022 Disability Future Fellowship, 2020 OBIE winner, 2020 Lucille Lortel nominee.