Alex Dauphin

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About Alex Dauphin

ALEX DAUPHIN (she/her) is an award-winning Haitian-American director, actor, and storyteller building art that celebrates the black, the queer, the transnational, and the femme so that those at the intersection can hear their history sung and see their beauty reflected. Her directorial debut ‘Jeudi’ won “Best LGBTQ Short Film” at Berlin Short Film Festival and has been selected for an additional 9 film festivals, including Out on Film and Micheaux Film Festival. Alex’s upcoming short film ‘By The Lake’ tracks a Black outsider from the city who collides with a White Appalachian woman in rehab as they change each others’ trajectories forever. It was nominated for ‘Best Narrative Short’ ant Austin Under the Stars Festival. Theatre directing credits include associate directing Cullud Wattah (Victory Gardens, dir. Lili-Anne Brown), assistant directing Last Night and The Night Before (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, dir. Valerie Curtis-Newton), Wife of A Salesman (Writers Theatre, dir. Jo Bonney), and Routes (Remy Bumppo, dir. Mikael Burke). Acting credits include Die Hart (ROKU), Ordinary Joe (NBC), Dynasty (The CW), MacGyver (FOX), Long Slow Exhale (BET), and Chicago Med (NBC), Seize the King (Alliance Theatre), A Christmas Carol and The Wolves (TheatreSquared). Alex holds a B.A. in Politics and African American Studies from Princeton University. IG:@alex.dauphin