- Was the youngest person to be hired into training as a Blue Man.
- Founding member of New York Collective For The Arts.
- Lifelong painter and visual artist.
- Grew up performing in Bread & Puppet in Glover, VT, and in the independent films of Vermont filmmaker (and Sundance alum) Jay Craven.
- Awarded best actor by Maggie Flanigan (Nolita Film Fest) for his performance as Yusif in The Seventh Dog, a short film by Zeina Durra.
- Alexis' great grandmother Lena Minden co-created and funded the Kindertransport, instrumental to saving over 10,000 Jewish children from slaughter during Holocaust of Nazi Germany. His great grandfather Ernst ran the Warburg banking empire safely through World War II, opening their London branch after serving as director of the 500 year old family bank in Hamburg.
- A one-time Creative Director of New York City organic raw-vegan restaurant Pure Food and Wine, as a private chef and yogi Alexis' roster of private followers and clients includes fashion icon Isaac Mizrahi, musician Karen O (The Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Madonna/Britney/Angelina and Vogue Magazine stylist Lori Goldstein, ELLE magazine fashion director Anne Slowey, organic food titan Irwin Simon, Robin Williams' family, and hit-TV-show "Iron Chef" creator (and "Okuribito" Academy Award WInning scribe) Kundo Koyama. He has served Vice President Al Gore (and family) as well as Presidential/White House staff for Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
- He is a first cousin of George C. Minden, America's top Cold War-era polyglot spy. George C. Minden spoke 14 languages fluently as he ran the ideological library of the CIA after growing up in Royal intelligence during and after World War II throughout Europe and South America. George operated solo before advanced technology on at least 3 continents for 35 years, what is now referred to as "The Marshall Plan for the Mind." He is now credited with being the most influential single man behind the toppling of the Berlin Wall and the official symbolic victory to end the Cold War between Soviet Russia and the United States.
- Editor at Large on the first New York issue of The Collective Magazine, launched during Art Basel in Miami, Autumn/Winter 2013.
- Some of Savino's notable creative collaborators: Anne Bogart, Peter Schumann, Lorcan O'Toole, Savion Glover, Antony Langdon, Mike Meza, Blue Man Group, Nadine Labaki, Bill Raymond, Zack Williams, Jay Craven, Janusz Kaminski, Scott Hicks, Teddy Thompson, Kundo Koyama, DKNY, Aya Yoda, Flying Television, Entertainment Weekly, Amin Husain & Nitasha Dhillon (MTL/Occupy Theory), The New Museum, The Highline Park, the W Hotel Residences in Hollywood, Arthur French, Jonathan Gray, Brian Devine, Cooper Union, The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), Freeman Dyson, International Center of Photography, Alexandre Plokhov, Robert Geller, Nancy & Jennifer Hartswick, Bob Giraldi, Stephen Wangh, Jordan Allen Dutton, Kristin Linklater, Sam Rockwell, Bill Murray, Brian Kulick, Lawrence Weschler, Pedro Salazar, Yellow Alex, Arnold Arenson, Columbia University, Concordia University, Bread and Puppet Theater, Café Grumpy, Caroline Ratcliffe, Theater for the New City (NYC), David Levine, Gordon Dahlquist, Dahlen, Peter Hurley, John Froehlich, Nu Classic Theater, Gerardo Taracena, Mark Pellington, Aimee Mullins, and Niky Wolcz.
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