Areas of Expertise
Performance Art; Acting Instruction; Opera Direction; Acting Coach
Email: aborrie@brandeis.edu
Current Project
Ms. Borrie’s project is titled “Household,” an original hour long staged theatre piece with music, text and choreographed movement montages, with a small cast of singers, dancers and musicians. An autobiographical look at mothers and daughters on stage and off, the work will highlight a new mother’s attempt to raise a child with developmental disabilities while supporting her career and the integrity of her art.
Biography
Alexandra Borrie celebrates 40 years as a professional actor-singer-dancer in New York. She has had a long and varied performance career on Broadway, in regional theatres and in television. She taught acting at the Tisch School, New York University and at Muhlenberg College. She began her career as a ballet dancer and recently sang annual classical repertoire with the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall, Kent Tritle conducting. Ms. Borrie is now directing chamber opera works in Boston and serving as a private acting coach to oratorio and recital soloists in Boston and New York, using her technique, The Borrie Approach. Her current directing credits include “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” with the Cantata Singers, Boston; “St. Nicholas” by Benjamin Britten with the New England Conservatory; Amy Lieberman conducting at Jordan Hall; a chamber opera version of “Dido and Aeneas” by Henry Purcell and the Opera Factory Tour production of “Carmen” with Opera Boston and the Cloud Foundation. Ms. Borrie is a co-host on OperaWorksRadio in Portsmouth and a founding member and director of Vocal Arts Exchange. This summer she will be directing an hour-long “Cosi Fan Tutte” also for the Cloud Foundation.
Education
B.F.A., Boston Conservatory of Music
Representative Publications
Forthcoming.
Links
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