Alexa Derman

Alexa Derman's plays include THE CREATURE (O’Neill NPC Finalist; Princess Grace/New Dramatists Runner-Up; Kernodle Prize), PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC (Relentless Award Honorable Mention), GIRLISH (Fresh Ink), ZIONISTA RISING (Winner, Jewish Plays Project National Competition; Finalist, O’Neill NPC) and I’LL BE IN MY HANUKKAH PALACE (sold-out at Ars Nova ANT Fest). Finalist: Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, the O’Neill, Seven Devils; semifinalist: Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Irons in the Fire, McNally New Works; long-list: Theatre 503 International Playwriting Prize (x2). Other honors and experiences include: nomination for the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, L Arnold Weissberger Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn; participation in Orchard Project’s Audio Lab; selection as a Playwrights Center...

Alexa Derman's plays include THE CREATURE (O’Neill NPC Finalist; Princess Grace/New Dramatists Runner-Up; Kernodle Prize), PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC (Relentless Award Honorable Mention), GIRLISH (Fresh Ink), ZIONISTA RISING (Winner, Jewish Plays Project National Competition; Finalist, O’Neill NPC) and I’LL BE IN MY HANUKKAH PALACE (sold-out at Ars Nova ANT Fest). Finalist: Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, the O’Neill, Seven Devils; semifinalist: Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Irons in the Fire, McNally New Works; long-list: Theatre 503 International Playwriting Prize (x2). Other honors and experiences include: nomination for the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, L Arnold Weissberger Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn; participation in Orchard Project’s Audio Lab; selection as a Playwrights Center Core Apprentice; participation in the Lehman-Engels Librettists Workshop; and recently working as a staff writer on a Netflix series. She is currently under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club via the Sloan Foundation and is a member of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers Group. BA from Yale in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies; MFA from Brown, where she studied under Julia Jarcho. alexaderman.com

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Scripts

The Creature

by Alexa Derman

6
Cast Size
6—12
Genre
drama,
experimental,
science fiction

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.

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

13
Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental,
horror

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...

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

6
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
drama

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?

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

4
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
experimental,
faith-based,
fantasy

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.

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

1
Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
horror

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…

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

3
Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
faith-based

At a Jewish American media organization, two Gen Z interns compete to rebrand Israel as a #girlboss #progressive #diversity-win via an AI-generated Instagram influencer. Somewhere, a Jewish American playwright is slowly losing her shit as her play is falling apart.

At a Jewish American media organization, two Gen Z interns compete to rebrand Israel as a #girlboss #progressive #diversity-win via an AI-generated Instagram influencer. Somewhere, a Jewish American playwright is slowly losing her shit as her play is falling apart.