Alexandra Collier is a writer*
*of plays, musicals, TV, journal scribblings and to-do lists. 

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In the 90s, indie rock band Triplight was poised on the knife edge of fame. But just before their first album was set to be released, the band tragically disappeared. Until tonight, 20 years later, when their charismatic lead singer Willow Spark will emerge from hiding to reckon with a past that will push her to the brink of life and death. 
Catch the Off Broadway debut of Triplight at Joes's Pub from May 30-June 4.

Starring Kristen Sieh, written by acclaimed Australian female artists, singer-songwriter Greta Gertler Gold and playwright Alexandra Collier and directed by Mia Rovegno, Triplight is an irreverent, quirky and dark new musical that explores the precarious life of a musician in the nostalgia-strewn past of New York City - with an original score that fuses indie pop and 90s rock. 

Buy tickets here. 

Starring Kristen Sieh
Book & Lyrics by Alexandra Collier
Music & Lyrics by Greta Gertler Gold
Directed by Mia Rovegno
Produced by Laura Been
Design by Kate Freer
Costumes by Whitney Locher

​Triplight has been developed at Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, SPACE on Ryder Farm, UCROSS Foundation and The Tank.

Underland at 59E59

"Ms. Collier, who is Australian-born and New York-based, has created six vivid, droll characters. In terraNOVA Collective’s polished production of “Underland” at 59E59 Theaters, Mia Rovegno has directed six assertive, beautifully delineated performances" 
- New York Times

Underland is out now through Playlab Indie - pop it while it's hot.

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Press for
Take Me Home

Three audience members. 
One yellow taxi.
A limitless journey through New York City.    
"...the deliciousness of the concept is that you become unsure what is staged and what is just New York"
                         - New York Times
"sweet, generous and inventive"
                        - The New Yorker
"One of the hottest seats in town may just be in the back of a cab"
                 - Wall St Journal

Check out more press for Take Me Home here

past and future stuff


  • This summer, my musical Triplight, written with singer-songwriter Greta Gertler Gold will be produced at Joe's Pub - one of New York's preeminent music/theatre venues at the Public Theater. Tickets go on sale soon for the production, which runs from May 31-June 4. Stay tuned. 
  • Stoked to be developing my play Together at Berkeley Rep in June 2018, as part of their Groundfloor residency program, with director Mia Rovegno and composer Heather Christian. 
  • Greta Gertler Gold and i developed our '90s rock musical Triplight at The Tank in December 2017 and Greta recently performed an excerpt at Joe's Pub with actors Katrina Yaukey, Michael Bernardi, Rob Morrison and Ann Carr . 
  • I was in residence at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne doing a Hot Desk Fellowship from Sept-Nov, 2017.
  • My new play Together was workshopped as part of the Playwright's Horizons playlab in June 2017, with director Mia Rovegno and composer extraordinaire Heather Christian writing exquisite music to go with my "I have no idea how to write lyrics" words. 
  • The Crying Lettuce is selected for Brave New World Repertory Theatre's New Work Series, directed by Meghan Finn 
  • American Theatre Magazine shout-out in an article about Erik Ehn's incredible silent retreats: "Ehn—who does speak during the retreats—pushes attendees to write an entire play in their short time with him, and writers like Washburn, Annie Baker, Francine Volpe, Ally Collier and Adam Bock have used the workshops to generate an astonishing volume of new work."