Alexa Derman

Alexa Derman is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter. Plays include THE CREATURE (Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship; Relentless Honorable Mention; O’Neill NPC Finalist; Princess Grace/New Dramatists Runner-Up; Kernodle Prize), PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC (Relentless Honorable Mention), GIRLISH (Fresh Ink), ZIONISTA RISING (Winner, Jewish Plays Project National Competition; O’Neill NPC Finalist; NYTW Mondays @ 3) and I’LL BE IN MY HANUKKAH PALACE (Ars Nova ANT Fest). She is an alum of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers Group, the Playwrights Center Core Apprenticeship, and Orchard Project Audio Lab, and a member of the Lehman-Engels Librettists Workshop. Alexa has been twice nominated for the L Arnold Weissberger Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn, has attended residencies at Hedgebrook...

Alexa Derman is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter. Plays include THE CREATURE (Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship; Relentless Honorable Mention; O’Neill NPC Finalist; Princess Grace/New Dramatists Runner-Up; Kernodle Prize), PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC (Relentless Honorable Mention), GIRLISH (Fresh Ink), ZIONISTA RISING (Winner, Jewish Plays Project National Competition; O’Neill NPC Finalist; NYTW Mondays @ 3) and I’LL BE IN MY HANUKKAH PALACE (Ars Nova ANT Fest). She is an alum of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers Group, the Playwrights Center Core Apprenticeship, and Orchard Project Audio Lab, and a member of the Lehman-Engels Librettists Workshop. Alexa has been twice nominated for the L Arnold Weissberger Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn, has attended residencies at Hedgebrook and Ragdale, and is under commission from MTC/Sloan and EST/Sloan. As a screenwriter, she's developing projects in film and TV and was a staff writer for Netflix. BA from Yale in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies; MFA from Brown, where she studied under Julia Jarcho. Now that you've met her, you can call her Lex.

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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.

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.

Beauty

by Alexa Derman

Cast Size
6
Genre
drama,
faith-based

Net is having a baby and Riley is getting older and CJ's genetically-determined bone structure makes it biologically impossible for women to find him attractive. This play is about siblings.

Net is having a baby and Riley is getting older and CJ's genetically-determined bone structure makes it biologically impossible for women to find him attractive. This play is about siblings.

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...

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…

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.