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Alexa Sheridan
VP, Creative Advertising
Focus Features

LOS ANGELES, USA // Alexa is Vice President of Creative Advertising at Focus Features, where she works with world-class filmmakers to help tell diverse, distinctive stories that make a lasting impact and inspire human connection.

Prior to joining Focus in 2018, Alexa enjoyed a seven year tenure in theatrical marketing at Sony Pictures. As a creative advertising executive there, she helped develop and execute the A/V and print advertising for campaigns including Escape Room, Peter Rabbit, Sausage Party, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, and The Magnificent Seven. At Focus, Alexa oversees the creative advertising for films such as Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don’t Die and Neil Jordan's Greta, and is honored to lead the upcoming Harriet campaign, which finally brings the story of American hero Harriet Tubman to the big screen for the first time.

Alexa grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from UCLA with degrees in English and Political Science.