Alexandra Stroe

Alexandra Stroe made her début on the main stage of the National Theatre, Bucharest, immediately after she took her degree in 2014, in the show String Yourself, Pearl, for which she learned to tap-dance, as well as learning the choreography of numerous folk and individual character dances. She continued to work with theatres in Bucharest and elsewhere, gaining more and more substantial parts at the Excelsior, the Metropolis, the Romanian Dramatists’ Theatre, the Children’s Comic Opera, the Tony Bulandra, the Art Theatre, the Apropos, the Unteatru, the Improteca, and other independent spaces, where she met well-known directors including Alexander Hausvater, Silviu Purcărete, Attila Vizauer, Mick Davis, Michele Modesto Casarin, Petrică Ionescu, Alexa Visarion, Florin Piersic Jr., and Felix Crainicu, leading choreographers including Vava Ștefănescu, Florin Fieroiu, Svetlana Zotina, Lelia Marcu-Vladu, and Ioana Macarie, and composers of theatre music including Cári Tibor, Raul Kusak, and Ioan Gyuri Pascu. The shows she has appeared in included War, The Love for Three Oranges, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Audition, Paganini, Bambi, The Graveyard Ball, Mrs Godot, Film, Opposites Attract, and Heidi.

After studying acting at the Hyperion University, Bucharest, where her teachers were Damian Crâșmaru, Rodica Mandache, Eusebiu Ștefănescu, Adriana Trandafir and Diana Mihăiță, she sought to enrich her means of expression and to familiarise herself with various acing, voice and movement techniques, taking part in numerous workshops given by national and international maestros including Basil Hoffman, Bettina Lohmeyer, David Bridel, Gigi Căciuleanu, Marsha Cox, Roxanne Butterfly, and Sol Garé.

In 2016, she was part of an international theatre company for a month, after which she put on a performance based on Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi, alongside actors, directors and choreographers from Poland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, and Iran in the Brzezinka Forest, Poland, where at one time Grotowski held his theatre laboratories. Both in theatre and in film (e.g. the first Romanian found-footage horror film, which has won awards at numerous international festivals and gained her a nomination for best actress), Alexandra takes risks and enriches her repertoire and theatrical skills, demonstrating versatility and curiosity, determination, and, not least, boundless enthusiasm.