Alexis Poledouris is a director committed to creating engaging live theatrical events by emphasizing clarity in storytelling through visually and kinesthetically rigorous staging and design with impulse-driven and skillfully crafted acting. Previous projects include: Vendetta Chrome by Sally Oswald for Clubbed Thumb at The Ohio Theater; the award-winning The Jew and the Demon by Jonathan Goldberg at NYU/Tisch; Cherubina by Paul Cohen at the Sanford Meisner Theater; Momma by Edith Freni at PS122; the critically acclaimed Food for Fish by Adam Szymkowicz for Sanctuary Playwrights at The Kraine; NYC Fringe “Outstanding Play” God’s Waiting Room by Ashlin Halfnight for PL115 at PS122, which then toured to The Merlin International Theater in Budapest, Hungary. Alexis is a member of The Constant Theater for which she directs many plays, including Babette Torquemada at HERE for the American Living Room Festival and Bad to Worse: a history play at the Local Hakiri Smash Club in Queens, NY, both written by Robert Quillen Camp. Alexis works as a co-director and performer with Dodeska Performance Ensemble, an integrative sound, theater, and technology collective whose most recent show, The Group, premiered in San Francisco at the Climate Theater. Other work includes collaborations with: Ensemble Studio Theater, Young Playwrights Inc., Queens Theater in the Park, The Production Company, Electric Pear Productions, WKCR Radio, Target Margin Theater, Barnard College, and The Public. Current projects include adapting and directing The Flower Show by Istvan Orkeny. She received her MFA in Directing from Columbia University School of the Arts where she was a Dean’s Fellow, and a BA in Literature/Theater from Reed College.