Meredith Alexander is a lecturer in acting and directing, and is affiliated with Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies. She was one of the faculty members who created the Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Iowa. Her professional training includes work with Kim Stanley, the late Alan Schneider, and the Old Globe Theatre Company. She has taught at UCSD, as well as San Diego State University, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she headed both undergraduate and graduate acting programs. Her professional directing experience includes productions in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Kansas City.

Her courses that are cross-listed with GWSS are:

Performing Autobiography (131:114/GWSS:3421)

Sex and Gender in Performance (131:187/GWSS:3420)

Culturally Diverse Theatre (131:192/GWSS:3416)