Alexandra Wood,
Intermediate Playwriting
Alexandra Wood (she/her) is a playwright from London. Her plays include Descent (due to be released Oct 21 on Audible); The Tyler Sisters (Hampstead); Never Vera Blue (Futures Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); The Human Ear (Paines Plough); Ages (Old Vic New Voices); a translation of Manfred Karge’s Man to Man (Wales Millennium Centre); Merit (Plymouth Drum); The Initiate (Paines Plough, winner of a Scotsman Fringe First); The Empty Quarter (Hampstead); an adaptation of Jung Chang’s Wild Swans (Young Vic/ART); The Centre (Islington Community Theatre); Unbroken (Gate); The Lion's Mouth (Rough Cuts/Royal Court); The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court) and the radio play Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4). She is a past winner of the George Devine Award and was playwright-in-residence at Paines Plough in 2013. Her plays are published by Nick Hern Books.