About


Alexa Downing is a graduate of the Multimedia Theater BFA program at Lehman College of the CUNY. She has been studying acting and writing in her hometown of Denver CO, graduating from the Denver School of the Arts creative writing program in 2019.  Credits at Lehman include Skinheadgirl in Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories both onstage and in an online hybrid performance. Beyond acting, she also expresses her love of theater through writing and directing, having assistant directed and written for the Lehman College devised production of Pa’lante! As well as having her piece Dear Gay Amy produced by BronxRep for their Queer Love production. Outside of Lehman, she has been working in film; having played a lead role in her first feature The Cave directed by Cory Santilli, as well as several short and student works.