Alexa Derman

Alexa Derman

Alexa Derman is a playwright from Jersey. 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). Her work has been developed with support from Orchard Project, Cutting Ball, the Playwrights Center, and Fresh Ground Pepper. Alexa is...
Alexa Derman is a playwright from Jersey. 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). Her work has been developed with support from Orchard Project, Cutting Ball, the Playwrights Center, and Fresh Ground Pepper. Alexa is currently under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club via the Sloan Foundation and was recently a staff writer on a Netflix series. BA Yale, MFA Brown.

Plays

  • The Creature by Alexa Derman
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    6–12
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: future, apocalypse + 3 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, science fiction
    Keyword: future, apocalypse, bio-ethics, speculative, reproductive autonomy
    Soon, a biomedically-engineered creature is grown in the body of a graduate student – and then soon becomes later. A speculative play about care, reproduction, bodies, and every wild thing.
  • PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC, or, everyone at yale is a goddamn sociopath !!! by Alexa Derman
    Recommendations: 11
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: feminism, misogyny + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, horror
    Keyword: feminism, misogyny, gender, college, rape culture
    Something is amiss at Yale University. Female students are disappearing at alarming rates, only to be later found stuffed in discount mini-fridges and hacked to pieces. Meanwhile, a new freshman is pretty sure there’s something up with the guy she met at the campus bar last night...
  • Girlish by Alexa Derman
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: girls, female friendship + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: girls, female friendship, internet, teenage girls
    Windy loves painting her nails, being fifteen, goofing off with her BFF, and every one of her American Girl dolls. But loving AG is totally embarrassing until it leads you to Internet fame and sexting A Boy and then it’s -- what, exactly?
  • I'll be in my Hanukkah palace by Alexa Derman
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: Jewish, kids + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, faith-based, fantasy
    Keyword: Jewish, kids, dunno what's up with this one truly
    Five Jewish nine-year-olds LARP Christianity! Watch as they: role-play heterosexual marriage, don flame-throwing mech suits, stab each other to facilitate animal reincarnation and try to cross themselves. I’ll be in my Hanukkah Palace is a feverish excursion back into the weirdo dreamscape of queer Jewish childhood.
  • Play House by Alexa Derman
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: queer, thriller + 6 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental, horror
    Keyword: queer, thriller, horror, dinner party, feral teens, stand-mixers, Cryptids, Gen Z vs millennials
    Jo and Mona are married, Jo and Mona live in a beautiful house, Jo and Mona have wonderful friends visiting for the weekend, Jo and Mona don’t know about the two Teen Things lurking in the shadows, waiting, waiting…
  • Zionista Rising by Alexa Derman
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, faith-based
    Genre: dark comedy, faith-based
    At a Jewish American media organization, two Gen Z interns struggle to rebrand the Israeli occupation as #girlboss. A playwright struggles, too.