Alexandra is a playwright from Melbourne, Australia, based in Brooklyn, New York. Her recent plays include Underland, (workshopped at Sydney Theatre Company and Page to Stage, Dixon Place), Willow’s One Night Stand (a mini-musical written with Greta Gertler as part a night of short plays, Foxy Films, Brooklyn), The Red Letterbox (Weasel Festival, East 13th St Theater), Holy Day (Telephone Festival, Overturn Theatre Ensemble) and This Place will be My Salvation. Prior workshops/readings/developments: Deathless was developed at Synchronicity (Atlanta) as a finalist for the SheWRITES series and the Lark Playwright’s Development Center (New York). The Will of the Cockroach (The Production Company, New York) was directed by May Adrales as part of the Australia Project. Alexandra performed in the premiere of Still Waiting (La Mama, Melbourne), which subsequently toured to the Adelaide Fringe Festival and was awarded the RE Ross Trust National Playwrights Award, profiled in the Australian Scriptwriting Centre’s collection of the best Australian plays of 2006 and in their Stand Alone monologue audition collection. Awards, fellowships and grants include: MacDowell Fellowship, Ian Potter Cultural Trust travel grant (Australia), the Dame Joan Sutherland Award (New York) and Highly Commended in the Marian Eldridge Women’s Writing Award (Australia). She is an MFA playwriting candidate at Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman and a member of the 2010-2012 Women’s Project Playwrights Lab.