Alexandra Wood (dramatist)

Alexandra Wood
Born	1982 (age 42–43)
Occupation	Playwright
Nationality	British

Alexandra Wood (born 1982) is a British dramatist. She won the 2007 George Devine Award. ^{[1] [2]}

Plays

• The Human Ear (Paines Plough)
• Ages (Old Vic New Voices)
• English version of German dramatist Manfred Karge's version of Brecht's Man to Man (Wales Millennium Centre)
• Merit (Theatre Royal, Plymouth) 2015 ^[3]
• The Initiate (Paines Plough), winner of Scotsman Fringe First Award 2014, restaged Southbank Centre 2015
• adaptation of Jung Chang's Wild Swans (ART/Young Vic)
• The Empty Quarter (Hampstead Theatre)
• The Centre (Islington Community Theatre)
• Decade (co-writer, Headlong)
• Unbroken (Gate)
• The Lion's Mouth (Royal Court Rough Cuts)
• The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court) 2007 ^[4]
• Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4).

References

1. "SLG Celje - Merit". slg-ce.si. Retrieved 15 April 2025. In 2007, British playwright Alexandra Wood won the prestigious George Devine Award for Most Promising Young Playwright for her play The Eleventh Capital.
2. "Alexandra Wood | Playwrights Canada Press". www.playwrightscanada.com. She is a winner of the George Devine Award (for The Eleventh Capital) and was the Big Room Playwright-in-residence at Paines Plough in 2013.
3. Gardner, Lyn (4 February 2015). "Merit review – gripping drama made from Spain's unemployment crisis". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
4. Theatre Record -2007 Page 224 "The Eleventh Capital is part of the Court's Young Writers' Festival, and its author, Alexandra Wood, is in her early 20s. Yet it feels as if it's been written by an even younger writer. It's stuck in some Orwellian totalitarian regime."