Alex Lin is just a girl from Jersey. She is a second-year playwright in Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. Lin is a recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation Commission, Manhattan Theatre Club Sloan Initiative, and the Working Theater inaugural playwright residency. She is a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist, Weissberger Award nominee, BMI Bookwriting Fellow, a Colt Coeur Resident Artist, recipient of the Stavis Award, and a two-time Paul Stephen Lim Kennedy Center Award winner.
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), NYTW (Zionista Rising), Commonwealth Shakespeare (Henry VI Part III, Richard III), Amphibian Stage, Ojai, and Cape Cod Theatre Project (barren). She is developing a play investigating the history of the NRA and its transformation into one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the U.S.
At MacDowell, Lin wrote original country and Appalachian folk music for her play AMERICAN STEEL, supported by a commission from Working Theater and presented by Atlantic Theater Company in Fall 2025. She also wrote a new draft of her plays THE AMAZON and Laowang—to be presented by Fault Line Theater Company and Primary Stages, respectively.
Portrait by Amanda Whiteley
