Alex Lin

Alex Lin is just a girl from Jersey. Lin is a second-year playwright in Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. Lin’s plays have been developed at Roundabout, Second Stage Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Rattlestick, the O’Neill, Two River, South Coast Repertory, Ojai, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Playwrights Realm, Central Square Theater, and Theater Mu. She has been a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, Rutgers University, and Union College. As an actor, Lin has appeared at the Actors Theatre of Louisville (The Wolves), New Victory (In the Land of Mauve and Gold), Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Julius Caesar, The Cherry Tortured), Ma-Yi (The House of Billy Paul), Jewish Plays Project (Zionista Rising), Commonwealth Shakespeare (Henry VI Part III, Richard III), Amphibian Stage, Ojai, and Cape Cod Theatre Project (barren). Lin is a recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation Commission, Manhattan Theatre Club Sloan Initiative, and the Working Theater inaugural playwright residency. Lin is a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist and Weissberger Award nominee.