The story
DeeJay Alex grew up on a cattle ranch outside Alpine, Texas, and got her start in a community theatre production the summer the power went out during a storm and stayed out for three days — the cast rehearsed by lantern light. She enrolled in a two-year acting program in Austin in 2018 and paid for classes by working the box office at a second-run theatre.
Her first film credit was a self-funded short, Caliche, shot in 2021 on borrowed equipment — 12 minutes, no distributor, passed around entirely by word of mouth. It found an audience anyway: a mention on KOOP Austin's film hour, a shared link among short-film collectors, a write-up in Reel Notes that called it "the sound of a screen door in July." Her first stage lead came from that same write-up.
Low Water was shot over one summer in a single trailer park outside Terlingua, on a schedule built around the heat. She now reads for feature leads and is booked on her next project through the end of 2026.
