Alexis Floyd

Alexis Floyd was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, in a musical family. Her mother, a classically trained flutist, is manager of Cleveland Youth Orchestra and her father was a classically trained tenor before becoming a lawyer. She took up violin at age three. She was a competitive figure skater, did violin recitals at the Youth Orchestra, studied at the Cleveland School of Ballet and did musical theater at several venues, including Cleveland Playhouse and
Cleveland Public Theater. Her education was entirely in private schools. For high school she attended Hawken School, and went on to Carnegie Mellon to study musical theater. In 2012 she studied at The Rhodopi International Theater Collective in Bulgaria, where she studied Suzuki method, mime, and aerial art. After college graduation she moved to Los Angeles and then to New York City where she now lives. At the time of her auditio…