About
Alexa Derman is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter who writes adventurous work about gender, genre, and systems.
Her plays include THE CREATURE (Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship; Relentless Honorable Mention; O’Neill NPC Finalist; Princess Grace/New Dramatists Runner-Up; Kernodle Prize), PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC (Relentless Honorable Mention), GIRLISH (Fresh Ink), ZIONISTA RISING (Winner, Jewish Plays Project National Competition; O’Neill NPC Finalist; NYTW Mondays @ 3) and I’LL BE IN MY HANUKKAH PALACE (Ars Nova ANT Fest).
Alexa is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and a member of the Lehman-Engels Librettist Workshop. She is an alum of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers Group, the Playwrights Center Core Apprenticeship, and Orchard Project Audio Lab. Alexa’s been a finalist for the Public’s Emerging Writers Group and the Civilians R&D Group, as well as a semifinalist for Page 73’s Playwriting fellowship. She has been twice nominated for the L Arnold Weissberger Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn, has attended residencies at Hedgebrook and Ragdale, and is under commission from MTC/Sloan and EST/Sloan.
As a screenwriter, she's developing projects in film and TV and was a staff writer for Netflix.
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.
