Alexandra Surer
- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
As Zurich and Berlin-based producer, director and talent manager, Alex links multi-lingual actors and writers from Europe with the US Industry. And vice versa.
Born in San Francisco to Swiss parents - making her the only American in her family - she grew up in Vancouver and Basel, was shipped off to Houston as an exchange student, returning to graduate in Zurich, adding High German, French and Latin to her native SchwyzerGerman and English.
Stage debut with a renowned Children's Theater aged 8, she went on to receive her MA of Fine Arts at ZHdK Zurich, studying with Uta Hagen at H.B. Studio, NY. After a decade as an actor on German stage, features and TV, she joined the Shakespeare Company Berlin, directing the Shakespeare Kids in her own translations, as well as running a business for Diversity Management and Family Constellation, while studying screenwriting with Wolfgang Pfeiffer (Oscar Nominee for 'Children of Nature' in 91).
Back in Hollywood from 2009-2016, she began working on set as production assistant, 2nd AD, honing her writing skills at ScreenwritingU and directing her first short films.
Joining Friends Connection Berlin as talent agent in 2017, she was Bohemia Group's EU Manager from 2018 to 2025. A Cannes Producer's Network Alumni 2021-2024, Alex is also flexing her director muscles anew: Her fiancé CLAUDE is tirelessly coaxing her to send her promising Lynchian short SKEL'S HELL on the festival circuit for 2026.
Born in San Francisco to Swiss parents - making her the only American in her family - she grew up in Vancouver and Basel, was shipped off to Houston as an exchange student, returning to graduate in Zurich, adding High German, French and Latin to her native SchwyzerGerman and English.
Stage debut with a renowned Children's Theater aged 8, she went on to receive her MA of Fine Arts at ZHdK Zurich, studying with Uta Hagen at H.B. Studio, NY. After a decade as an actor on German stage, features and TV, she joined the Shakespeare Company Berlin, directing the Shakespeare Kids in her own translations, as well as running a business for Diversity Management and Family Constellation, while studying screenwriting with Wolfgang Pfeiffer (Oscar Nominee for 'Children of Nature' in 91).
Back in Hollywood from 2009-2016, she began working on set as production assistant, 2nd AD, honing her writing skills at ScreenwritingU and directing her first short films.
Joining Friends Connection Berlin as talent agent in 2017, she was Bohemia Group's EU Manager from 2018 to 2025. A Cannes Producer's Network Alumni 2021-2024, Alex is also flexing her director muscles anew: Her fiancé CLAUDE is tirelessly coaxing her to send her promising Lynchian short SKEL'S HELL on the festival circuit for 2026.
