ABOUT
Alexa Derman writes adventurous plays about gender, genre, systems, and speculation.
Her plays include THE CREATURE (Runner-up, Princess Grace/New Dramatists; Finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; Winner, Kernodle New Play Award), PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC (Honorable Mention, Relentless Award), GIRLISH (Fresh Ink), ZIONISTA RISING (Winner, Jewish Plays Project National Competition) and I’LL BE IN MY HANUKKAH PALACE (sold-out at Ars Nova ANT Fest).
Finalist: Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, the O’Neill, Seven Devils, Starr Reading Series; semifinalist: Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Irons in the Fire, McNally New Works; long-list: Theatre 503 International Playwriting Prize.
Other honors and experiences include: nomination for the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, L Arnold Weissberger Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn; participation in Orchard Project’s Audio Lab; selection as a Playwrights Center Core Apprentice (mentored by Sheila Callaghan); and recently working as a staff writer on a Netflix series. She is currently under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club via the Sloan Foundation and a member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers Group.
BA from Yale in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies; brand-new MFA from Brown, where she studied under Julia Jarcho. You can call her Lex.
NEXT: Teaching for Playwrights Center in the summer; come see my Clubbed Thumb reading on June 27th.
