A B O U T
Alex Lubischer is a queer Midwestern writer, born and raised on a farm in Nebraska. He lives in Rogers Park, Chicago.
Current screenwriting projects include Big Dave, an hour-long TV pilot co-conceived with Danilo Gambini—Hyperobject Industries is attached to produce—and an original coming-of-age thriller, Evildoers. He’s also writing a boy band movie for Division Global and Sappho Screen.
His plays include Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Theatre Company, Steep Theatre, Jeff Award Winner: Outstanding New Play), You Deserve to Be Here (Goodman Playwrights Unit commission; Roundabout Theatre Laura Pels commission, The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting - Longlist), Do Wasps Have Desires? (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Pivot (Yale School of Drama, GPTC New Play Conference 2024, Shelterbelt Theatre), Weird Kids (Haven Chicago), The Quonsets (Yale Cabaret, co-written with Majkin Holmquist), and Survey No. 5 (House of International Theatre, Copenhagen).
Lubischer was the 2017/18 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Roundabout Theatre Company. He has developed new work at Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, Page 73, The Orchard Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Victory Gardens Theater, First Floor Theater, The Understudy, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has been a semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship and a three-time finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
He teaches playwriting at DePaul University, the Goodman Theatre, and Bramble Theatre in Chicago.
MFA: Yale. BA: University of Southern California