Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw is a Greek-American director, writer, and composer focused on new work. Plays directed in Austin include: U.S. premiere of Mouthful a collection of short plays (St. Edwards University, Mary Moody Northen Theatre), Rude Mechs’ Fixing Timon of Athens by Kirk Lynn (co-direction with Madge Darlington, The Off Center), Operation Istanbul by Patrick Shaw (Cohen NWF, B. Iden Payne Theatre), The Orange Garden by Joanna Garner (UTNT, Oscar G. Brockett Theatre). Alexandra’s work has been produced by FullStop Collective (Galapagos Art Space), ITE, Communal Spaces, The Pershing Square Signature Center (New Plays Now 2014), New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF Mint’d Explorers), and the Florence Griswold Museum. She is a regular director and mentor for the Young Playwrights Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center and an alumna of the National Theatre Institute. Alexandra is currently devising Public Good, a documentary theatre performance commissioned by Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte investigating the Eugenics Board of North Carolina. She is Managing Director of Austin-based experimental theatre collective Rude Mechs. MFA, Columbia University.