Ali MacLean is an actor and writer in Los Angeles and a graduate of the Miami University actor’s program and the LaJolla Playhouse acting conservatory. She is the winner of the 2018 John Gassner Playwriting Award, a 2019 O'Neill Finalist, the 2019 She NYC Arts Best Production, the 2020 David Sedaris Writing Prize, and the 2020 Julie Harris Playrighting Award.

Her plays and writing have been workshopped at the Melrose Theater, (via the HBO Workspace), the Hudson Theatre (via Comedy Central Stages), the Lyric Hyperion, Largo at the Coronet Theatre, the Naked Angels Theatre Group, the White Bear Theatre (UK), Rogue Machine Theatre, A Noise Within Theatre, Antaeus Theatre, Zephyr Theatre, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Ali’s play She’s Not There received the 2018 John Gassner Playwriting Award was a finalist for the 2109 Scribe Marsha A. Croyle Award and was named 2019 Best Production by She NYC Arts. Her play Wolves At The Door was a finalist in the 2019 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference. Ali recently completed the play This Will Be Our Year, the second in her trilogy based on Zombies songs. Ali workshopped the third in the trilogy, I’ll Call You Mine, at the Summer Salt Playwrights Workshop in Chatham, MA. Ali is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Playwrights Unit, Antaeus Theatre’s Playwrights Lab, The Honor Roll, and the Dramatists Guild.

Ali is an award-winning filmmaker, and her films have screened at Atlanta, Toronto, Gen Art, and Palm Springs to name a few. Her screenplays have been a semi-finalist at Chesterfield, Screencraft, and ScriptLab, and a finalist at WeScreenplay Diverse Voices, Orchard Project, IFP Filmmakers Program. She is a 2015 Women in Film Mentor recipient, and the 2018 Writer For Writer Fellowship recipient.

Ali has written for various networks, including MTV, VH-1, and FOX. She created the MTV pilot TOWN MAUL and wrote for MTV2’s CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH, as well as for KATHY GRIFFIN. Ali worked on comedies such as THE JIMMY KIMMEL SHOW, HBO’s MR. SHOW, and THE GREEN ROOM with PAUL PROVENZA. Ali created the web series LAW OF THE LAND, which she wrote for the DAVID CROSS-owned FKR TV. She most recently was a writer for the television series, HOLLYWOOD DARLINGS, on the Pop Network.