About
Alexa Derman is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter.
Her plays have been developed by the Playwrights Realm, Ars Nova, NYTW, Clubbed Thumb, Orchard Project, and the Playwrights Center. Alexa’s plays have been the winner of the Kernodle Prize, the Chesley/Bumbalo Prize, and the Jewish Plays Project’s National Competition; runner-up for Princess Grace/New Dramatists; two-time honorable mention for the Relentless Award; three-time finalist for the O’Neill; semifinalist for the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship; and twice nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn.
Alexa is an alum of the Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group, the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, and the Lehman-Engels Librettist Workshop; she is a New Georges Affiliated Artist. She’s attended residencies at Hedgebrook and Ragdale and is under commission from MTC/Sloan and EST/Sloan.
As a screenwriter, she has been a staff writer for Netflix and Hulu and is developing multiple film/TV projects.
BA from Yale in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies; MFA from Brown, where she studied under Julia Jarcho.
Now that you've met her, you can call her Lex.
