Actress, Voice Over Artist, Teaching Artist
In the Works
Fresh Fruit Festival presents:
dress still fits
by Peter Pasco
Ruby and Tanya are celebrating Tanya's birthday away from their families and the city. The good times and jokes come to a halt when a nerve gets hit. Come watch Alessandra playing Ruby in the premiere of dress still fits.
7:00 pm on March 28th, 2025
at Theatre for the New City
155 First Ave New York, NY 10003
Buy tickets here!
Previously
Sapphest: NYC's Premier Sapphic Play Festival
Venom Heart
by Antonia Cruz-Kent
Sapphest is a Sapphic play festival featuring six 10 minute plays, each piece is inspired by a classic sapphic pop song. Come watch Alessandra playing Anacaona in the premiere of Venom Heart.
9:30 pm on January 18th, 2025
at Caveat
21 A Clinton Street New York, NY 10002
Pieces of People:
A Two-Sided Eulogy
New York Theater Festival 2024 presents:
Pieces of People: A Two-Sided Eulogy tells the story of a young woman, Lucy, who decides to end long-term treatment for her father, but then meets Death instead. With Lucy's insistence, Death magically takes Lucy through her dad's life to help her process, and eventually accept the pain she has to face.
9 pm on 7/16, 6;30 pm on 7/17 and 4:30 pm on 7/20
at Hudson Guild Theater
441 West 26th Street New York, NY 10001
IVERA
IVERA is a love letter to Puerto Rican womanhood and a condemnation of medical racism. It is movement-forward, and experimental. We begin 17 weeks after Ivera has fallen into a coma due to medical negligence, directly after the birth of her first child. Ivera grapples not only with the impending loss of herself, but the decay of everyone around her. From her hospital room, she relives her happiest moments, and faces her saddest ones. As the veil between worlds begins to lift, Ivera, caught somewhere in-between, observes her loved ones at her bedside. She soon realizes her perfect, vibrant, passionate life wasn’t as beautiful as she thought it was. Can she return to the land of the living before time runs out? What does it mean to be both ever-loving and ever-changing?
3:30 pm and 8 pm on Friday, April 26th, 2024
and 3:30 pm on Saturday, April 27th, 2024
at Lenfast Center for the Arts
Staged Reading of
Pieces of People:
A Two-Sided Eulogy
Pieces of People: A Two-Sided Eulogy tells the story of a young woman, Lucy, who decides to end long-term treatment for her father, but then meets Death instead. With Lucy's insistence, Death magically takes Lucy through her dad's life to help her process, and eventually accept the pain she has to face.
8 pm on Saturday, February 24th, 2024 at
Mabou Mines Studio
150 First Ave, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10009
Staged Reading of
I Have Friends!
"I HAVE FRIENDS!" explores the life of Apple, a young woman from a wealthy family in NY, fresh out of college. Apple decides to hire actors to pose as her friends after overhearing people talk about how alone she is. This arrangement turns into a complex web of emotions and conflicts, as the actors grapple with the job and their own place in life
7 pm on Saturday, December 9th, 2023 at
The Tank @ The Attic
W 36th St. 3rd floor, New York, NY 10018
Staged Reading of
Memories of What
Could Have Been
It’s 1993 in New York City’s Lower East Side. Two teenage sisters struggle to understand each other and their family situation. More and more, they become estranged until it's discovered that one of them has AIDS. Anger, fear, sorrow, and regrets ensue until they come together and face the challenges of dealing with the virus.
6 pm on Friday, February 10th, 2023 at TheaterLab
357 W 36th St. 3rd floor, New York, NY 10018
Seats are limited, so RSVP
"Solanas is the character that we learn the most about and Ruiz does a spectacular job of making her personable and real. It felt like I had met the radical feminist in the flesh."
-Cultbytes
"Alessandra Ruiz makes a stronger impression as Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist author who shot and nearly killed Warhol. But the piece doesn’t have room for a fuller picture of Solanas, a fascinating figure in her own right."
-Theatrely
Chasing Andy Warhol
(closed July 2022)
Alessandra portrayed the roles of Valerie Solanas, Julia Warhola, and Giant Andy Puppeteer.
Chasing Andy Warhol, in partnership with SECRET NYC, Greenwich Village Business Alliance, NoHo BID, TMPL Gym at Astor Place, Von Bar and other area businesses, transformed the East Village into a living pop art extravaganza as we reimagine the life of the most influential artist of the 20th century. This theatrical walking tour production employed Bated Breath’s unique multi-media style as scenes from Warhol’s life unfold on the streets, behind windows of area businesses, and inside secret locations along the route. Bated Breath used their unique blend of theatre, dance, film, art, walking tour and puppetry to tell this iconic artist’s story in a whole new way which goes beyond the hype and into the deepest longings of a profoundly important person whose legacy continues to bombard our senses at every turn.
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