Alesia Georgiou began training at age seven, when she
enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New
York City. Her studies there continued for six years,
until her acceptance to Fiorello LaGuardia High School
of Performing Arts, (otherwise known as the 'FAME'
school). As a high school student she wrote Broadway
reviews for the Theater Development Fund's publication
'Play by Play'. Her original work has also been
published in 'Childsplay', a book of children's
monologues edited by Kerry Muir, with whom she
worked at the Strasberg Institute. In addition to her
theater training, she has studied voice with Bob Marks
and Dolores Tigue, and classical piano with Danyal
Lawson at the Greenwich House Music School.

When Alesia was seventeen, she was accepted to the
Stanislavsky Summer School in Cambridge, a
post-graduate program that is a collaboration between
the Advanced Repertory Theater at Harvard and the
Moscow Art Theater School. Upon completion of this
program she was invited to be part of a pioneer group
of Americans who would live in Russia for four years,
learning the original Stanislavsky method and studying
contemporary Russian theater. After high school
graduation she emigrated to Moscow at eighteen years
of age, without knowing a word of Russian.

Alesia graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School
(otherwise known as MXAT), in 2005 with a BFA
degree in Acting. Her education there included
singing, ballet, gymnastics, stage combat, and fencing
in addition to performing a rotating repertory of
eight different shows. She studied under the tutelage
of former Bolshoi Theater prima ballerina Larissa
Dmitrieva, Moscow Conservatory graduate Marina
Smirnova and Andrei Droznin of the Shukin Movement School.

Upon graduation, the American students of MXAT
founded a repertory theater company known as Studio
Six of the Moscow Art Theater, and began performing at
the Artsland Theater Festival in August of 2005. At the
Zero Arrow Theater in Cambridge, they premiered three
Eastern European plays with Kirill Serebrennikov,
Oskaras Korcunas and Ivan Popovski. The group later
returned to Moscow and began performing in both
English and Russian, presenting the European premiere
of Adam Rapp's 'Finer Noble Gases' with Robert
Olinger, as well as Chekhov's 'The Bear' and 'The
Wedding' with Yuri Yeremin. During this time Alesia also
became a featured columnist specializing in art and
entertainment for Element magazine.

Currently, Alesia is working with Studio Six as well
as performing in various independent productions in
New York City. Upcoming projects include further
development on "Zima" ("Winter"), with Vaz Santosham,
and the Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" at the Baryshnikov
Arts Center.

© 2006 Alesia Georgiou
Actress, Singer, Dancer
New York City

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