Alexandra Wood

Alexandra Wood is a UK playwright whose plays include: an adaptation of Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Watermill Theatre, 2023); The Tyler Sisters (Hampstead Theatre, 2019); The Human Ear (Paines Plough, 2015); Ages (Old Vic New Voices); an English version of Manfred Karge's Man to Man (Wales Millennium Centre); Merit (Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2015); The Initiate (Paines Plough, 2014; winner of Scotsman Fringe First); an adaptation of Jung Chang's Wild Swans (ART/Young Vic); The Empty Quarter (Hampstead Theatre, 2013); The Centre (Islington Community Theatre); Decade (co-writer, Headlong); Unbroken (Gate Theatre, London, 2009); The Lion's Mouth (Royal Court Rough Cuts); The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2007) and the radio play Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4).

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.

A radical, modern-day re-interpretation of Arthur Schnitzler’s taboo-breaking 1897 play La Ronde, with its '...
An arresting 60-minute debut play about dislocation, manipulation and power, winner of the George Devine Award for Mo...
A play confronting the challenges we face in a foreign land, asking where, or to whom, we belong.  
A thrilling tale of altruism, greed, and the search for a way to belong.
An intriguing play about loss, renewal and knowing who to trust.
A funny, heartening exploration of time, and the unassuming moments that make up our lives.
Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.
A stage adaptation of Kate Summerscale's bestselling non-fiction thriller, about the investigation of a Victorian cou...
A thrilling two-hander that looks at the complexities of a mother-daughter relationship, the growing argument between...