ALEXIS THOMASON

Alexis Thomason was born in the Bronx in NYC to a couple of lovely but disillusioned ex-hippies. Little did everybody know, their disillusionment would be passed on to their young daughter at a very tender age. Her father taught her to play guitar and sing harmony, thereby providing her with an outlet for her confusion. She ran with the whole music thing and, eventually, attended the High School of Music and Art in Lincoln Center. Alexis found a home at The Wetlands Preserve where she started singing with Joe Gallant and his orchestra. His was a 17-piece avant garde and electric rock orchestra that specialized in arrangements of the aforementioned hippie icons, The Grateful Dead. But, alas, things change and Alexis made her way a little further south in Tribeca (as did many folk) and found herself at The Knitting Factory. There, she crossed paths with a Brooklyn cowboy songwriter named Jack Grace. She told him she could sing and he believed her. You can hear her with the Jack Grace Band on the soundtrack to the Fox Searchlight flick "Supertrooper" (during a very compromising scene!). As an actor, Alexis has performed with the Internationalists Directors Collective and all over the city.