All About Alex

Alexandra Barreto has been working on sets for over twenty years as an actress, writer, producer and director. 

Alexandra’s directorial debut, “Lady Hater,” premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, and was named “Top 5 Not-to-be Missed Shorts from the Tribeca Film Festival,” by FORBES. She directed the Audible Original Series, “Cut and Run,” starring Meg Ryan, Rachel Bloom and Sam Richardson. She wrote and directed a horror/comedy short film, “Welcome to the 90s,” for Shudder Anthology feature, SCARE PACKAGE 2: RAD CHAD’S REVENGE.

Alexandra recently produced the feature documentary DOC MEETS WORLD, following the cast of BOY MEETS WORLD as they reunite after 30 years for a rewatch podcast and national tour. The doc is premiering at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival. She produced the Sundance supported feature film, LATE BLOOMERS, starring Karen Gillan, Margaret Sophie Stein, Jermaine Fowler and Kevin Nealon. The film was released by Vertical Entertainment in theaters and VOD. An earlier feature she produced, TOO LATE, starring Academy Award Nominees John Hawkes and Robert Forster was released theatrically and secured a worldwide deal with Netflix.

Past projects include writing and directing the first political commercial to air on Comedy Central, and she’s produced seven short films including “The Dungeon Master” which won the Best Short at the Tribeca (Online) Film Festival, and “F*ck the Parents,” starring Pamela Adlon and Rob Delaney.

As an actress she’s guest starred and/or recurred on television shows spanning all genres from “Justified” to “Parenthood” to, most recently, recurring on CW’s “All American, and FX’s ‘Mayans MC,” and a five year run on “The Fosters.”

She is a Film Independent, IFP and Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow.