Alex Lin

Alex Lin is just a girl from Jersey. Lin is a first-year playwright in the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program.  Lin’s plays have been developed at Second Stage Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, the O'Neill, South Coast Repertory, Playwrights Realm, Central Square Theater, and Theater Mu. Lin 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), Ma-Yi (The House of Billy Paul), Jewish Plays Project (Zionista Rising), and Commonwealth Shakespeare (Henry VI Part III, Richard III). Lin is a recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation Commission, Manhattan Theatre Club Sloan Initiative, and TheatreWorks Book & Co-Lyrics Commission. Lin is a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominee and Weissberger Award nominee.