Alexa Baker is a Columbus, Ohio-based multi-hyphenate performing arts professional. She received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the Sunderman Conservatory at Gettysburg College and her Masters’ in Classical Voice from the Manhattan School of Music. She is currently on faculty at Ohio Dominican University, teaching Theatre and Acting, and is the Marketing Manager for The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio. She has been a teaching artist with Actors’ Theatre of Columbus, Columbus Children’s Theatre, Discover Opera! (Manhattan School of Music), and the Gettysburg Sings! Children’s Theatre Program, and interned with the Summer Shakespeare Program (McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ). Prior to moving to Columbus, Alexa was the Associate Director of Youth Programs at Steps on Broadway dance studio in New York, NY.

An active performer, some of Alexa’s favorite credits include Big Fish (Sandra, The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio), Ghost Quartet (Quartet, Available Light Theatre), Disney’s Newsies! (Katherine, CCT), Something Rotten! (Bea, Gallery Players), A Tale of Two Cities (Lucie Manette, Actors’ Theatre of Columbus), Everybody (Usher/God/Understanding, AVLT), On the Twentieth Century (Lily, Village Light Opera Group), and Ordinary Days (Claire). Internationally, she has worked with the Trentino Music Festival (Pamina, Die Zauberflote) and the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival (Kate, Pirates of Penzance and Fleta, Iolanthe). Baker has performed in master classes with Deborah Voigt, Maury Yeston, and Craig Rutenberg.

During her time at Gettysburg College, Baker co-founded a student-run opera ensemble, raised $10,000 for future student opera projects, and directed the ensemble’s first production of Dido and Aeneas. She was an active participant in campus productions with both the music and theatre departments. Alexa was the first vocalist to win the Sunderman Conservatory Concerto Competition, singing arias from Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, and was a nominee for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for her portrayal of Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town. While at MSM, Baker was the teaching assistant for undergraduate and graduate Movement for Singers and Advanced Movement for Singers classes. She has choreographed for City Lyric Opera (New York, NY), McCarter Theatre’s Summer Shakespeare, Music! Gettysburg, Manhattan School of Music Senior Opera Theatre, and Discover Opera!

Baker is passionate about the role of the arts in the social-emotional growth of young people and has been praised for her holistic approach to teaching voice and acting. Past students of Alexa’s have been accepted into collegiate programs in acting and musical theatre at Ithaca College, Elon University, Columbia College, DePaul University, Texas State University, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Oklahoma City University.

Education

• Master of Music, Vocal Performance, Manhattan School of Music

• Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance, Sunderman Conservatory

Specialties

• Theater

• Musical Theater Voice

• Classical Voice