Alex Lubischer
Playwright
Alex Lubischer is a Chicago-based, Jeff Award-winning playwright originally from rural Nebraska. His plays include The Amateur, or The Death of Character (Goodman Playwrights Unit commission), Do Wasps Have Desires? (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Theatre Company, Steep Theatre), Pivot (Yale School of Drama), Weird Kids (Haven Chicago), The Quonsets (Yale Cabaret, co-written with Majkin Holmquist), and Survey No. 5 (House of International Theatre, Copenhagen). He has developed new work at Playwrights Horizons, Page 73, Atlantic Theater Company, The Orchard Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Victory Gardens Theater, First Floor Theater, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Lubischer was the 2017/18 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Roundabout Theatre Company. He is currently working on new play commissions from Roundabout and South Coast Repertory. He teaches playwriting at Steep Theatre and the Goodman in Chicago. MFA: Yale