Alaina Messineo (she/they) is an emerging Playwright, Poet, Lyricist, Director, and Dramaturg originally from Rochester New York. Recent Playwriting Credits include Jesus stole my birth control. (StudioTenn), Life(Chaos) (MadLab Theatre), Yolk (Spooky Action Theatre), and Water Doesn’t Kill (American Lives Theatre) (Spooky Action Theatre). Additional Playwriting credits include Peachtea (Artists Exchange), Banana Bread Tastes Better When It’s Ripe (Obvious Child) (Quarantine Bakeoff), The Wheel (Marymount Manhattan College), Two Hearts (Manhattan Repertory Theatre) and Bad Beans (Geva Theatre). Directing Credits include Posers at (Manhattan Repertory Theatre) and Carrier Pigeon (Theatre for the New City). Her plays, poems, and monologues have been published in five Red Penguin Books; "the flower shop around the corner", "The Beauty Within Stories of Spirituality, Faith, and Love", "An Empty Stage", “the ocean waves”, and “the leaves fall”. Alaina is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. She is a recent graduate of Marymount Manhattan’s BA Theatre program with a double concentration in Writing for the Stage and Directing and was the recipient of the Golden Key for Writing for the Stage.