Lexi Balestrieri

Lexi is a Florida born and raised actress with a lifetimes experience as a performer At the age of three she got her start on the stage as a Ballet dancer eventually moving on to Jazz which she would do for fourteen years Her parents noticed a knack for singing in Lexi and thus she began training in the church choir at St Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Hudson FL at the age of five In high school she started classical voice training privately with Ariana Montecara Eventually her training in music and dance turned into a passion for musical theater throughout middle high school and college giving way to a career in film acting She acquired her Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Florida State University in 2013 while spending much of her spare time volunteering in the community and performing in plays with two studentrun organizations Leave Your Mark Productions and Florida State Universitys Student Theater Association She has played Clea in Peter Schaffers farce Black Comedy sang and danced her heart out as a Phantom in The Rocky Horror Show and faced death as Hunyak in Chicago It wasnt until her time at FSU that she fell in love with film getting her first taste on camera with The Florida State University Film School Since then film and television acting has become her main career focus After college Lexi moved to Tampa FL to pursue her career and in 2015 began training with Andi Matheny Acting Studios in St Petersburg FL There she has acquired a wellrounded education with focus on scene study character development and improvisation Lexi has also helped establish Bouncy Boxer Media LLC a female owned and mostlyfemale operated independent film production company with writer and producer Stefanie Davis and fellow actress Chelsea Wolf Lexi has written directed and starred in several short films and webisodes with Bouncy Boxer Media and the trio have become an active advocate for women in film and television in the Florida community Several of Bouncy Boxers shorts and webisodes have screened at over twenty film festivals in America and have won awards for Best Ensemble Cast Best Webisode Best Writing and Best Comedy