Alexa Derman
Providence, RI
Playwriting
Alexa Derman is a playwright from Jersey who writes about gender, systems, and speculation. Her plays include PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC (Relentless Award Honorable Mention), GIRLISH (Fresh Ink Theatre), RESTORATION MASTER RESET (Cutting Ball in WAYS TO LEAVE A BODY), and I’LL BE IN MY HANUKKAH PALACE (sold-out at Ars Nova ANT Fest). Alexa has been a finalist for Jewish Plays Project, Playwrights Realm’s Writing Fellowship, the Starr Reading Series, Pegasus PlayLab, Kitchen Dog New Works, and Unicorn Plays-in-Progress; semifinalist for Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the O’Neill. Other honors and experiences include Orchard Project Audio Lab, Cutting Ball Variety Pack, Fresh Ground Pepper’s BRB Retreat, nomination for the Cherry Lane Mentor project and the Susan Smith Blackburn, a residency with StageFemmes at Kenyon College, and at Yale the Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting. Alexa is a 2022-2023 Core Apprentice at the Playwrights Center and currently under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club via the Sloan Foundation; she's also a staff writer on an upcoming Netflix series. BA from Yale in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, MFA Brown as of May 2023.