Alexandra Palting

Alexandra Palting is an actor and writer based in New York City. This year, Palting is an Artist in Residence at The Kennedy Center where she wrote, composed and performed her original musical 0874: A Filipino American Love Story, based on her grandparents' long distance courtship during their immigration to the United States. She has performed her music at venues including The Lincoln Theatre, Merriweather Post Pavilion, and Olney Theatre Center. Favorite regional theatre credits include CATF, Olney Theatre Center, Imagination Stage, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, The Keegan Theatre, InterAct Theatre Co. and Shakespeare in Clark Park. Her career as a classical singer has taken her from Baltimore to the Vatican. She is also a screen actor who can be seen in independent films and in productions for clients like Apple, the NIH, and Home Depot as well as an audiobook narrator and producer whose work can be heard anywhere from NYT Bestsellers at MacMillan Publishers to Microsoft. She studied at the University of Delaware, RADA, and Harvard Online Business School. Through her business, The Hustling Creative, she supports nonprofits through storytelling, having raised over $60,000 for nonprofits since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and empowers young professionals as they pursue a career in the arts through private coaching and engagements at universities and conferences across the country.