Alexandra Collier

Alexandra is a playwright from Melbourne, Australia, based in Brooklyn, New York. Her play 'Deathless' has been developed at Synchronicity (Atlanta) as a finalist for the SheWrites series, the Lark Play Development Center (New York) and Center Stage (New York). 'The Will of the Cockroach' (The Production Company, New York) was directed by May Adrales as part of the Australia Project. She performed in the premiere of her play '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 Script Centre's annual collection #6 in their 'Stand Alone' monologue audition collection. Her recent plays include 'The Red Letterbox' (Weasel Festival, East 13th St Theater), 'Underland' (Dixon Place, Page to Stage), 'Holy Day' (Telephone Festival, Overturn Theatre Ensemble) and 'This Place will be My Salvation'. Other 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 a member of the 2010-2012 Women's Project Playwrights Lab.