Alexandra Swartz is a 21-year-old musical theatre and theatre major standing at 5'1.5" with dark brown hair and eyes. She has played roles in several musicals and operas as a soloist and ensemble member at Seton Hill University and other regional theatres. Her vocal training includes private lessons since 2011 and experience singing in multiple languages and styles.
Immigrants’ Theatre Project will present Staged Readings in English of 6 new plays written by women playwrights who are the leading voices writing for the stage today in Central and Eastern Europe. ITP’s artistic director Marcy Arlin and director Gwynn MacDonald will curate these plays from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovak Republic.
Immigrants’ Theatre Project will present Staged Readings in English of 6 new plays written by women playwrights who are the leading voices writing for the stage today in Central and Eastern Europe. ITP’s artistic director Marcy Arlin and director Gwynn MacDonald will curate these plays from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovak Republic.
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1. Alexandra Swartz
Hair color: dark brown
Eye color: dark brown
Height: 5’ 1.5”
Age: 21
Musical Theatre/Theatre
A Little Night Music Mrs. Segstrom Seton Hill University
Suite Surrender Murphy Stevens Apple Hill Playhouse
Alice in Wonderland Alice The Theatre Factory
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Sally Brown Greensburg Civic Theatre
Alice in Wonderland Alice Apple Hill Playhouse
Southern Hospitality Gina Jo Apple Hill Playhouse
A Winnie the Pooh Birthday Tail Christopher Robin Apple Hill Playhouse
The Enchanted Sleeping Beauty Minstrel/Dancing Bird Apple Hill Playhouse
The Crucible Betty Parris FRHS
Hello, Dolly Select Ensemble FRHS
The Woman in White Anne Catherick FRHS
You Can’t Take It With You Rheba FRHS
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Wife/Select Ensemble FRHS
The Man Who Came to Dinner Chorus leader/delivery person FRHS
Footloose Ensemble FRHS
The Son Who Sang Hosanna Soloist Monroeville United Methodist
Eutychus Townsperson Monroeville United Methodist
Opera
Dido and Aeneas Belinda Seton Hill University
The Telephone Lucy Seton Hill University
Amahl and the Night Visitors Amahl Seton Hill University
***has sung arias and excerpts of other opera roles in concert and recital, including Baby Doe (The
Ballad of Baby Doe), Olympia(Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Amina (La Sonnambula), La Perichole (La
Perichole), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Lakmé (Lakmé), Amore (Orfeo), Nannetta (Falstaff), and Gilda
(Rigoletto)
Vocal Performance
-soloist in Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra’s American Masters Concert (February 2015),
conducted by Daniel Meyers
-Currently a vocal performance and music therapy double major at Seton Hill University
-Private lessons with Daphne Alderson (2011-present)
-Private lessons with Gail J. Noullet (2009-2011)
-Various choirs (2000-present), including Una Voce, The Chamber Choir of Seton Hill
Dance
-August 2012 – featured as a dancing bird in The Enchanted Sleeping Beauty at Apple Hill Playhouse
-Ballet – 2010 (Larry Cervi School of Performing Arts)
-Gymnastics – 7+ years as a youth
Special Skills
-Three octave vocal range (G3-Ab6)
-Experienced at singing in Italian, French, and German, has also sung in Norwegian, Spanish, and
Latin
-Very versatile vocally, sings in operatic, classical, musical theater, jazz, and popular styles
-Experienced pianist and guitarist
-Has performed roles using British and Southern accents