Alexandra Dean is an Emmy award-winning documentary and news producer. She spent five years producing for the investigative news-magazine show “NOW on PBS,” where she covered the housing crisis, the student loan crisis, human rights abuses and environmental issues.
Following PBS she became a series and documentary producer at Bloomberg television. She co-created the long running Bloomberg series Innovators. Her Bloomberg documentary, The Player, an investigation of the gambling industry, received a New York Press Club Award and was described as a “breakout” by the channel and received 4 times Bloomberg’s usual viewership.
In 2014 she founded Reframed Pictures in partnership with filmmaker Adam Haggiag and the actress Susan Sarandon. She is currently directing a feature documentary for American Masters about the actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University, and received her Masters in Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School.