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*Core Member.

An Arizona native, Brianna made the move to NYC two years ago and looks back everyday.  What can she say?  It's rough surviving in this city!  Yet she has loved every minute of it.  Brianna is immensely grateful for the opportunity to be a part of PHOENIX RISING.  Thank you to Laura and Daniel and to all her Phoenix bird friends!  Love you, Adan!

Personal statement:
​I knew early on in the rehearsal process that we were going to be challenged in ways that we have never been before.  In order to be able tell the stories of these young women, we were asked to travel to the deepest and darkest recesses of our psyche and to connect to our own feelings of shame, abandonment, and helplessness.  Many times the feelings of despair and solitude were so great that finding the light seemed impossible, but it was then that my fellow Phoenix sisters offered their hearts to lift me up and to show they are there with me.  My hope is that through PHOENIX RISING we are able to offer the same to others.
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Julia is thrilled to be in the same room time and time again with these magical creatures, she enjoys dancing randomly on street corners while reciting Shakespearean verse.  She also acts her life away: Theatre credits include; Iphigenia, IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS (Off-broadway & North American Tour); Agnes, BUG (Regional,); Alexandreyevitch, AN ANALYSIS OF SUSPENSE & DRAMATIC TENSION (Strawberry One Act Festival, nominee Best Actress); Masha, THE SEAGULL (Dir. Geoffrey Horne); Ophelia, THE OPHELIA LANDSCAPE (Dir. Naum Panovski); Mrs. Antrobus, THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH (Dir. Jimmy Maize); Shelly, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (Dir. George Loros); Ruth, APPLAUD THE DEVIL, PRAISE THE LORD (Arthur Saleen Theatre); Sonia, UNCLE VANYA (LSTFI); Hilde, SA KA LA (U.S. workshop premiere); Mother,  TI-JEANS & HIS BROTHERS (NYU); Kate Mundy, DANCING AT LUGHNASA (NYU); Marisol, MARISOL (NYU); Masha, THREE SISTERS (Robert Ellermann, NYU); Kathy, VANIIES (Robert Ellermann, NYU); Sam, SOME GIRLS(s) (NYU). 

Alesandra is a New York based theater and film actress and a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts.  She has trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, The Stella Adler Conservatory, the Stonestreet Film & Television Studios, and WITS University Johannesburg, South Africa. Theater credits include: Ronnie (lead) in the D.C. Black Theatre Festival production of STILL LIFE GOES ON; QUIZZICALLY QUIMSICAL; a showcase with Front and Center NYC.  Alesandra made her directing debut at the Ancient Drama Festival in November 2012.  She is also workshopping sketch comedy with EndTimes Productions for their 6th annual winter show "Naked Holidays" and is shooting her first sci-fi action feature with Silver Cheese Productions.  Some of her favorite roles include Claire Zachanasian of THE VISIT and Suzanne of PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE.  As always, thank you Mom, Dad, Jake & family for always supporting me and my endeavors!