Alexia Casale

A British-American citizen of Italian heritage, Alexia Casale is an author, teacher, and writing consultant. After studying psychology then educational technology at Cambridge University (England), she moved to New York. There she worked on the Tony Award-winning 2004 Broadway revival of "La Cage aux Folles," working with legendary composer Jerry Herman and multiple Tony Award winners Harvey Fierstein, director Jerry Zaks, and choreographer Jerry Mitchell. She has family ties in California and New York, where all four of her paternal great-grandparents arrived from Eastern Europe and were processed at Ellis Island.

After returning to the UK, Alexia completed a PhD and teaching qualification. In between, she worked as a West End script-critic, box-office manager for a music festival, and executive editor of a human rights journal. She loves cats, collects glass animals, and has a particular fondness for medieval sleeves.