<br>Alexa was born and raised in the Berkshires, Massachusetts. She has always loved film. Her earliest influence was Howard Hawks, when at age eight she was able to recite all of the dialogue from his 1946 film <span style="font-style: italic;">The Big Sleep</span>. When Alexa received a camcorder for Christmas 2005, she began filming everything she could.<br><br>Alexa makes short films, documentaries, parodies, tv shows, promotional material, and music videos. She has won several awards for her work and has worked with HBO, PBS, ethnographic filmmaker Fidel Moreno, and New York Times bestselling author Rachel Simmons.<br><br>Alexa resides in New York City and is studying Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.<br>