Alexia Rowe

Alexia Rowe is a Boston native playwright, composer and singer-songwriter currently living on the North Shore of Massachusetts. She spent her formative years as a missionary kid in post-apartheid South Africa where she studied Visual and Dramatic Arts and wrote, acted in and directed over a dozen plays. Her most notable work to date is a collaboration with History Alive, Inc. on “This Is Not A Bill” which has received many awards, including grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a regional nomination for Best Play of 2019 from TodayTix and BroadwayWorld, as well as positive reviews from mixed audiences.
A coloratura soprano and self-taught guitarist, Alexia has been writing songs since the age of 11, and has a multitude of choral and performance experience dating back to her...

Alexia Rowe is a Boston native playwright, composer and singer-songwriter currently living on the North Shore of Massachusetts. She spent her formative years as a missionary kid in post-apartheid South Africa where she studied Visual and Dramatic Arts and wrote, acted in and directed over a dozen plays. Her most notable work to date is a collaboration with History Alive, Inc. on “This Is Not A Bill” which has received many awards, including grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a regional nomination for Best Play of 2019 from TodayTix and BroadwayWorld, as well as positive reviews from mixed audiences.
A coloratura soprano and self-taught guitarist, Alexia has been writing songs since the age of 11, and has a multitude of choral and performance experience dating back to her elementary school years. She studied classical voice at Gordon College, whose Theatre Department was recently recognized among the Top 20 Best College Theatre Programs according to the Princeton Review. She also produced and hosted her own weekly radio show, “The Unique Voices Club”, for Gordon College’s Scot Radio to promote the listening of independent artists. Having graduated in August 2020, she holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts, specializing in Musical Theatre and Playwriting. Currently she is working on the music for her first musical, and though classically trained, she counts Amber Gray, Stevie Nicks, Kate Bush and Joan Armatrading as her musical influences.

Scripts

The Rest of Us

by Alexia Rowe

Synopsis

Meet Janet Blue, a recent divorcée struggling to find herself within the quirky neighborhood of Claret, an art therapy enclave. And meet her brother Peyton, who despite being unable to speak, has already blended right in on grounds Janet cannot completely understand. The neighbors only see Peyton's exceptional musical talent as his own form of healing, which Janet knows is not even close to the full story.
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Meet Janet Blue, a recent divorcée struggling to find herself within the quirky neighborhood of Claret, an art therapy enclave. And meet her brother Peyton, who despite being unable to speak, has already blended right in on grounds Janet cannot completely understand. The neighbors only see Peyton's exceptional musical talent as his own form of healing, which Janet knows is not even close to the full story.
Is Peyton keeping some sort of secret from everyone, or do he and Janet perhaps have to face the same demons?

This Is Not A Bill

by Alexia Rowe

Synopsis

Its 1854. The Fugitive Slave Act promotes the capture of runaway slaves and punishes those who help them. Abolitionist Salem, MA has good opportunities to start a new life, but the better known Salem becomes the more enticing it is to bounty hunters. You will be part of the committee of vigilance, a secret group of free born and formerly enslaved people, who must help two escaped slaves determine whether it's...

Its 1854. The Fugitive Slave Act promotes the capture of runaway slaves and punishes those who help them. Abolitionist Salem, MA has good opportunities to start a new life, but the better known Salem becomes the more enticing it is to bounty hunters. You will be part of the committee of vigilance, a secret group of free born and formerly enslaved people, who must help two escaped slaves determine whether it's safer to stay in Salem or flee to Canada, to start a new life. This play was written in partnership with History Alive, Inc.

Listening to Lily

by Alexia Rowe

Synopsis

The daughter of an ER nurse, Lily's life after college graduation has been put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She watches as people she cares about get taken from the world and as her mother struggles to keep up. And being high-risk herself, Lily can't do anything to help - except for one solution everyone's recommended she do, that will keep her life moving...

The daughter of an ER nurse, Lily's life after college graduation has been put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She watches as people she cares about get taken from the world and as her mother struggles to keep up. And being high-risk herself, Lily can't do anything to help - except for one solution everyone's recommended she do, that will keep her life moving...

Ballad for Madeline

by Alexia Rowe

Synopsis

Maddie is a precocious young girl who lives a nomadic existence with her jaded, divorced mother. Tired of moving every time her estranged father who tracks their whereabouts attempts to reconnect with them, Maddie must decide whether to throw caution to the wind or gain some stability in her life, with or without her mother.

Maddie is a precocious young girl who lives a nomadic existence with her jaded, divorced mother. Tired of moving every time her estranged father who tracks their whereabouts attempts to reconnect with them, Maddie must decide whether to throw caution to the wind or gain some stability in her life, with or without her mother.